Exempt final-year PG medical, nursing students from exams to engage in Covid care: Dr Devi Shetty
(WorldNews India)

The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the existing shortage of healthcare workforce in India, said Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, chairman of Narayana Health, on Monday. “We are desperately short of a million doctors and another two million nurses,” Dr Shetty said and made a strong pitch for waiving requirements of clinical exams for final-year nursing students and MD students, so that they can manage Covid patients for a year in government and private hospitals. “Some universities in UK and Italy have exempted final-year PG students and nurses and used alternative assessments to enroll them quickly in the healthcare system,” Dr Shetty said while responding to media queries after the launch of Covid...