New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a virtual meeting with experts to review oxygen and medicine availability. He also reviewed the human resource situation, concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, and ways to augment it.
According to government sources, the Prime Minister reviewed the matter of augmenting human resources for effective management of COVID-19 in the country on Sunday.
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During the meeting, several steps to incentivize students and pass-outs of medical and nursing courses to join Covid duty were taken.
The decisions which were taken in the meeting may include delaying the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) examination and incentivizing MBBS pass-outs studying for it to join Covid duty.
It might also include utilising services of final year MBBS and nursing students in Covid Duty.