Health Minister clarifies on USE of Final year MBBS students in COVID Duties
New Delhi: On the matter of COVID duty delegated to the MBBS students to handle the day by day rise in virus cases across the country, the MoS Health recently stated that final year MBBS students cannot be assigned clinical duties but rather be trained for COVID management activities.
The confirmation to this effect was recently made by the Union Minister of State Health and Family Welfare, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey in the Lok Sabha session wherein he informed the members on whether the Government intends to permit final year MBBS students to perform duty in COVID-19 designated hospitals. If so, the details thereof and the names of the States which have delegated the responsibility to final year MBBS students.
To this question, the minister replied affirmatively nformed the parliament:
The final year MBBS student may be trained about Covid-19 management in theory and practice, under supervision of faculties, but they cannot be assigned any clinical duties.
Amid the rising cases of COVID-19 and corresponding lack of healthcare professionals to manage the patients in hospitals and health centres, the states and UTs have been deploying medicos to tender their services. However, with the order of the MCI, no MBBS student having not passed their final year MBBS exam has been deployed to clinical work.
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