MBBS final-year students deployed for COVID-19 duty in Jammu & Kashmir

A monthly stipend of Rs 5,000 will be paid to all those final-year students, under the COVID-19 Emergency Response Package (ECRP) 2021-22 of the National Health Mission (NHM) J-K, who work for at least 100 days for COVID care.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has called upon the health institutions across the union territory to get the help of final year MBBS students for providing services like teleconsultation and monitoring of mild COVID-19 cases after due orientation and supervision of faculty.
In a communique to principals of government medical colleges of Jammu and Srinagar besides Sher-i-Kashmir Medical College and Hospital Bemina, Mission Director, National Health Mission, Choudhary Mohammad Yasin has said a monthly stipend of Rs 5,000 will be paid to all those final-year students, under the COVID-19 Emergency Response Package (ECRP) 2021-22 of the National Health Mission (NHM) J-K, who work for at least 100 days for COVID care in accordance with the notification issued by the Union Health Ministry.

Speaking on the same, he said, that the decision has been taken considering the surge in COVID-19 cases and with a view to augment the efforts of the administration in the fight against the pandemic.

“The salary of the contractual appointees in both the cases shall be the last salary drawn minus pension and commuted portion of pension. The engagement shall be for a period of one year or till further orders, whichever is earlier. The posts for these engagements shall be deemed to have been created,” Dulloo said in his order.

He asked the willing faculty members and doctors to join immediately before the heads of the institutions or departments concerned, preferably within a period of the next seven days.

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