MBBS final year students being deployed for Covid-19 duty in J&K

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has asked the health institutions to utilise the final year students of MBBS for Covid-19 duties.

Amid the Covid-19 surge, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has called upon the health institutions to utilise final year MBBS students for providing services like teleconsultation and monitoring of mild Covid-19 cases after due orientation and supervision of faculty. The director of National Health Mission, in a communique to principals of government medical colleges of Jammu and Srinagar, said that a monthly stipend of 5,000 would be paid to all such final year MBBS students.