5,546 medical staff to be hired

A security guard checking the body temperature of devotees at the Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada on Monday. (Source: K.V.S. GIRI)

The State government has accorded permission to the Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare to hire the services of specialists, general duty medical officers and paramedical staff for COVID treatment facilities in the State.

According to a G.O., the government will recruit 1,170 specialists, 1,170 general duty medical officers, 2,000 staff nurses, 306 anesthesia technicians, 300 FNOs, 300 MNOs and 300 sweepers on a contract basis for six months for COVID management.