Government ask doctors to join back their duties after receding covid cases

By: Musaib Iqbal MK

Srinagar

In Jammu division the government has asked the doctors who were posted in DRDO hospital for the covid patients to join back their hospitals and duties as there is a sharp decline in the covid-19 cases especially in Jammu city.

News reports said that authorities have repatriated doctors deployed from peripheral areas in 500-bedded to DRDO hospital Jammu as the government needs them in the health centers and other hospitals for the patients.

“In view of the significant decline in covid-19 cases in Jammu division leading to the underutilization of infrastructure of the covid-19 hospital and in the interest of health and patient care of peripheral areas and proper utilization of the services of medical professionals, it is hereby ordered that the doctors deployed from peripheral areas to the 500-bedded temporary covid-19 hospital Jammu order no. 410JK(HME) of 2021 dated 24-October 2021 are hereby repatriated to their original places of posting with immediate effect,” reads an order by additional Chief Secretary, Health and Medical Education Department, Vivek Bharadwaj.

The government order further said, “it may be noted that in case of any increase in covid cases in the division, the services of medical professionals may be again requisitioned at short notice”.