ANOTHER COMMERCIAL EXPENDITURE FOR CLINICS OF NORTH DELHI
All standalone clinics have been issued notice by North Municipal Corporation to pay solid waste disposal charges from 2018 to 2020. These clinics have been asked to pay an amount of Rs 60,000 per clinic within a period of fifteen days. Delhi Medical Association is planning to take up the issue because most clinics are closed for three months. According to the members of DMA this notice is an extra burden on their pockets because most of them are standalone clinics and small nursing homes are already barely able to survive.
NO JOB SECURITY IS FORCING DOCTORS TO QUIT GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS
Doctors working in states are going through tremendous pressure of long working hours, pay cuts, and job insecurity. Recently, many doctors from Delhi government hospitals have resigned from their jobs because they all were on ad hoc for 5-6 years. Dr. Durga who was working in the orthopedic department of RML hospital has joined a Private hospital in Rajasthan.
COPLA-19 TO HELP COVID-19 PATIENTS
AIIMS doctors along with a team of IIT-Delhi students have developed an app COPAL-19 that enables users to track willing plasma donors who have recovered from coronavirus. “We have a list of about 50 donors who are ready to donate plasma, ‘COPLA-19’ will help to rope in more donors in future.” Dr Abhinav Singh Verma, AIIMS
“Lots of people are investigating about this app and we will expand it more by creating awareness. This app is going to start in a week or so. Many state governments are approaching us regarding this and we believe to add more donors,” Dr Abhinav ads
DR MITHLESH IS UP’S NEW MEDICAL HEALTH DG
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday gave Dr Mithilesh Chaturvedi additional charge of Director-General (DG) of Medical Health. Chaturvedi is the DG of the Family Welfare department. He succeeded DG of Medical Health Rukum Kesh, who retired on Tuesday .