Odisha to provide weightage for Covid-19 health workers in recruitment exams

Published By : Prameya News Bureau | November 30, 2022 IST

Bhubaneswar, Nov 30: During the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of short-term healthcare workers such as nursing officers, pharmacists, radiographers and laboratory technicians were engaged by the district government in District Headquarters Hospitals and Medical College and Hospitals and Covid Care Centres throughout the state. Considering the contributions of these short-term health care workers during the pandemic, the state government under the direction of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik now framed the “Odisha grant of weightage in marks in the recruitment examinations in favour of Short-Term Covid-19 Healthcare workers Rules-2022” Secretary Health and Family Welfare Shalini Pandit said that as per the Rules, the short-term Covid-19 healthcare workers who were engaged for a minimum period of three months would be allowed weightage of five percent extra marks in the next recruitment examination to be conducted by OSSSC to the posts of nursing officers, pharmacists, radiographers, laboratory technicians and multipurpose healthcare workers. This would be a onetime measure. The aspirants of these recruitment examinations opined that thousands of candidates for the above posts would be benefitted by this. The short term covid-19 workers thanked Chief Minister and the Government for this decision.

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