The Uttarakhand government recruited another batch of 276 doctors for the state health services on Wednesday. A day earlier, 201 doctors were added to the state health services. These 477 doctors have been selected by the Uttarakhand Medical Services Selection Board (UMSSB). The chairman of the UMSSB, Dr D S Rawat said that the board submitted the list of these 276 candidates on Wednesday. The appointment of these 276 doctors is being made in wake of the threat posed by the spread of COVID-19. The health department has created more entry level posts in its cadre to recruit these doctors.
Meanwhile no new case of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported by the state health department of Uttarakhand on Wednesday. The authorities are somewhat relieved that no fresh case of the disease has been reported in the state from last three days. In a measure to ensure that the virus is contained from spreading in the society, the state health department has put a staggering 9650 persons in quarantine in different parts of the state. These people are kept both at institutional and home quarantine. The state has so far reported seven cases of the disease and out of them two have fully recovered and have been discharged from the hospital.
The director general (DG) of state health services, Dr Amita Upreti said that test reports of 35 suspected patients were received by the department on Wednesday and all of them were found negative. The department collected samples of 77 suspected patients on the day for test of COVID-19.
Interestingly 30 samples were sent from the Military Hospital (MH) of Dehradun on the day. It is pertinent to mention here that on Sunday, a Subedar posted in Dehradun was found positive for the disease. The department has so far sent swab samples of 590 suspected patients and out of them 7 have been found positive for COVID-19 B and the results of 78 samples are awaited.
The health department has converted 15 major hospitals of the state into dedicated centres for treatment of COVID-19.