On Sunday, 2 May 2021, a virtual meeting was held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with experts to review oxygen and medicine availability. He also reviewed the human resource situation, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, and ways to amplify it.
According to government sources, several steps to incentivize students and pass-outs of medical and nursing courses to join Covid duty were taken during the meeting.
The decisions which were taken in the meeting may include delaying the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) examination and incentivizing MBBS pass-outs studying for it to join Covid duty.
- It might also include utilising services of final year MBBS and nursing students in Covid Duty.
Medical personnel doing Covid duty will be given preference in government recruitment as well as a financial incentive.
Currently, there are 33,49,644 active cases of COVID-19 in India and the death toll has mounted to 2,15,542.
The total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered stand at over 15,68,16,031, informed the health ministry.
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