Congress to felicitate medical, media professionals for service during COVID-19 crisis

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has determined to felicitate medical and media professionals with a certificates of appreciation to medical doctors, nurses, lab technicians, reporters and camerapersons in recognition of the service within the combat towards COVID-19.

Addressing a media convention on the event of National Doctors’ Day and Karnataka Press Day on the Congress workplace in Kalaburagi on July 1, Dr. Kiran Deshmukh, State vice-president of KPCC Doctors’ Cell and chairman of Congress occasion’s Kalaburagi district COVID-19 Task Force, stated that occasion leaders would go to medical institutions and media workplaces throughout Karnataka to felicitate the professionals who stood on the frontline within the warfare towards the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It is because of the collective efforts of frontline warriors that the pandemic could be brought under control. As an expression of gratitude to medical and media professionals for their service and contribution in the fight against the pandemic, the Congress has decided to honour them with a certificate of appreciation,” Mr. Deshkukh stated.

Pointing to the disparity between the variety of fatalities amongst medical doctors during the COVID-19 crisis proven by the federal government and unbiased businesses, Mr. Deshmukh demanded an audit of medical doctors’ dying in order that complete help could possibly be supplied to the bereaved households.

“As per independent agencies like Indian Medical Association (IMA), the total number of doctors who died in the country during the COVID-19 crisis is 1,500 whereas the government figure is far less. A death audit would help us know the exact number of doctors who died in the pandemic,” Mr. Deshmukh stated.

Describing the hardship and struggling that medical professionals and trade as a complete had to endure during the pandemic, Mr. Deshmukh demanded that the Union authorities give you robust laws to take care of assaults on medical professionals.

“Medical students have lost one precious year fighting the pandemic. They could not write the postgraduate NEET examination. Considering these issues, the government should waive the one-year fee for medical students and immediately conduct the NEET examination. As promised, the government should also ensure that adequate reservation would be offered in government jobs for those who had completed 100 days of COVID-19 duty,” Mr. Deshmukh stated.

KPCC spokesperson Priyank Kharge and former minister Sharan Prakash Patil had been current on the media briefing.