Health Bulletin 28/February/2022

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Startup doctors: New policy allows govt doctors to consult in startup culture

Relief to foreign medical graduates: TN slashes fees for obtaining NOC by 90 %

In a major relief to the medical foreign medical graduates willing to pursue their internship in Tamil Nadu, the State Government has decided to slash the fees required to be paid by FMGs to obtain no-objection-certificates by 90 per cent.

The confirmation regarding this came from the State Health Minister Ma Subramanian, who announced on Friday that now foreign medical graduates will have to pay only Rs 29,400 for getting a NOC instead of Rs 3.54 lakh.

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Relief to Foreign Medical Graduates: TN Slashes Fees for obtaining NOC by 90 percent 

Prof Bhushan Patwardhan appointed as chairman of NAAC 

Bharat Biotech to come up with TB vaccine 

COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin maker Bharat Biotech International Limited is in the process of bringing out a vaccine against tuberculosis and soon the firm will sign an MoU with another firm for technology.

"Our honorable Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) has got an agenda of 2025 for the eradication of tuberculosis. I think we are in that direction. But we don't have the technology so we are partnering with somebody else. On that matter we should be announcing soon," Krishna Ella, Chairman, and Managing Director of Bharat Biotech reported the Economic Times.

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Bharat Biotech to come up with TB vaccine