The Central government has broadened the span of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP), a protection plot for medical services workers battling Covid-19, for a further time of 180 days from April 19, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday.
The plan has been stretched out to keep on giving the security net to the wards of medical services workers who are deputed to deal with COVID-19 patients. In such manner, a letter has been given to Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries Health, and Secretaries (Health) of all States and Union Territories.
The PMGKP was sent off on March 30 last year to give far reaching individual mishap front of Rs 50 lakh to 22.12 lakh medical services suppliers, including local area healthcare workers and private healthcare workers, who might have been in direct contact and care of COVID-19 patients and might be in danger of being affected by this.
Since the send off of the plan, up until this point, 1,905 cases of healthcare workers who passed on while being sent for COVID-19 related obligations have been settled, the service added.
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Coronavirus antibodies were available in 99.93% of tests taken from medical services and forefront workers in Mumbai, PTI revealed, refering to the discoveries of the quantitative sero study led in March by the city’s metro body.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation analyzed 3,099 members, of whom 3,097 were found to have antibodies. The urban body likewise said that 15.9% of the all out members had tried positive for Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. More antibodies were found in the blood tests of 36.5% of the workers who had taken the Covid vaccination doses.
“Of the 3,099 healthcare and frontline workers, 726 representatives were medical caretakers and healthcare workers from essential healthcare places in 24 wards of the BMC, 776 were Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport staff members and 779 were from strong waste administration division, among others,” it said.
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