Govt aims to reduce Covid fatality rate to below 1%: Minister
BENGALURU:
The state government intends to reduce the Covid fatality rate from the current 1.62% to below 1%, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Thursday.
He was speaking after inaugurating a Teacher’s Day programme organised by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.
Remembering Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on his birth anniversary, Sudhakar said the former vice-president is a role model for all teachers for generations to come.
Lauding the service rendered by teaching staff and students of RGUHS during the pandemic, he said, “We have approved the long-pending demand for inclusion in the NPS, which will benefit around 6,000 teachers from all over the state. Along with this, the government has hiked stipends of medical PG students and resident doctors by 40%.”
Eleven teachers were felicitated on the occasion.
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