COVID Duty: All freshly admitted PG medicos to be roped in post thorough training in Karnataka

The decision comes in observation of shortage of doctors and also after taking note of the disruption in admission procedures and in the counseling process due to COVID-19, which resulted in almost three months of delay in admission to PG courses.

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Meanwhile, Dr Jayaprakash Alva, Dean of Father Muller Medical College, told TOI, while MBBS interns and graduates look after fever clinics and quarantine facilities, some PGs, including new admissions, will be deputed to ICUs and other critical areas of Covid-19 duties.

Farhad Yenepoya, Pro-Chancellor of Yenepoya (Deemed to be) University, said that 70 new PG surgeons have joined this year. However, they will not be deputed to Covid-19 duties, he clarified.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education has already commenced its PG first-year course, while other private medical colleges in the region are now receiving admissions. The admission will be done after the 15-day mandatory quarantine of all candidates arriving from different parts of the country.