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Odisha govt trains 500 MBBS students to fight Covid-19

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BHUBANESWAR: The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the state governments across the country  to focus and work on health care related issues. The Government of Odisha, apart from setting up three special Covid-19 hospitals, has trained 500 MBBS students to deal with the pandemic and kept them as reserve, to be deployed if and when the need arises.

The state government gave online training classes to the students. The classes were approved by the Government of India said Subroto Bagchi, Covid-19 spokesperson of Odisha Government. In addition to this, the government has also kept paramedic students including nurses in reserve to deal with the pandemic in case there is a sudden spike in the number of cases in the state. The state government also urged retired medical professionals and experts to volunteer to be deployed at various state-run hospitals on short-term contract basis.

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