New Delhi (NVI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved temporary hiring of additional contractual staff in 51 Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) polyclinics across the country, to ensure timely medical attention to veterans and their dependents as the country battles a second and more severe wave of Covid pandemic.
“Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh has approved temporary hiring of additional contractual staff over and above the authorisation in 51 identified high pressure Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) polyclinics across the country to tide over the current COVID-19 crisis,” the Raksha Mantri Office said in a tweet.
The contractual staff, including one each of Medical Officer, Nursing Assistant, Pharmacist, Driver and Chowkidar for identified ECHS polyclinics, will be hired through Station Headquarters for night duty, beyond normal working hours, for a period of three months.
— रक्षा मंत्री कार्यालय/ RMO India (@DefenceMinIndia) April 27, 2021
The high pressure ECHS polyclinics to be covered are in Lucknow, Delhi Cantt (BHDC), Bangalore (Urban), Dehradun, Kotputli, Amritsar, Meerut, Chandigarh, Jammu, New Delhi (Lodhi Road), Secunderabad, Agra, Ambala, Greater Noida, Gurdaspur, Pune, Trivandrum, Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gurgaon, Gurgaon (Sohana Rd), Hoshiarpur, Mohali, Chandimandir, Allahabad, Ghaziabad (Hindon), Pathankot, Jodhpur, Ludhiana, Ropar, Tarantaran/Patti, Kolkata, Danapur (Patna), Khadki (Pune), Palampur, Bareilly, Kolhapur, Yol, South Pune (Lohegaon), Vishakapatnam, Jaipur, Guntur, Barrackpore, Chennai, Gorakhpur, Patiala, Noida, Bhopal, Kochi, Vellore and Ranchi, the Ministry of Defence said ina statement.
The contractual staff, including one each of Medical Officer, Nursing Assistant, Pharmacist, Driver and Chowkidar (watchman) for identified ECHS polyclinics, will be hired through Station Headquarters for night duty, beyond normal working hours, for a period of three months, Rajnath’s office said in another tweet.
The move will ensure availability of immediate medical attention even during night hours to acute cases in these areas to the veterans and their dependents. The validity of this sanction is up to August 15, 2021, RMO said.
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