Odisha struggling with shortage of doctors
The national average of doctor-population ratio stands at 1: 811 while the World Health Organization's prescribed norm specifies the posting of one doctor for 1,000 people.
The national average of doctor-population ratio stands at 1: 811 while the World Health Organization's prescribed norm specifies the posting of one doctor for 1,000 people.
The court passed the order on public interest litigation (PIL) filed on the basis of a news item published on May 16.
The policy with respect to the Bond Doctors has been amended, relaxed, cancelled, and re-implemented at least ten times since the inception of such policy in 1996. Subsequently, the Post- PG bond doctors also joined the bandwagon in order to rectify the issue of maldistribution of doctors in the State.
To ensure a swift supply of coal across power plants, additional trains and rakes by Indian Railways have been initiated to augment the transportation of coal through its network, the Ministry of Railways said in a statement.
The decision of Coal diversion, left the CPP-dependent industry with no time to devise mitigation plans for sustainable operations, forcing CPPs to curtail generation or come to a standstill. On an average, Captive Power Plant-based industries are getting less than 50% of the Coal against secured linkages and CIL auctions. Importantly, curtailment to CPP is continuing despite the Power Sector having come out of the coal crisis.
India announced 50,000 tonnes of wheat in humanitarian aid and requested Pakistan to allow it to use the country's land route to deliver the grain in Kabul.
A senior official of the state public health department said, "If we get at least 30 lakh doses per week as against the 50 lakh requested by the Chief Minister, we would be able to inoculate the entire state by this year-end with at least one dose of the vaccine."
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“Yes, there is a shortfall in supply of Covid-19 vaccines in our state,” admitted Mr N S Nigam, state health secretary.
Three major hospitals had to close and three more had to reduce their capacity following the blast.
