Karnataka to appoint 700 lab technicians to ramp up testing
BENGALURU:
The state government will appoint 700 lab technicians and an equal number of data entry operators to ramp up testing for Covid, said Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar on Friday.
The extra staff are for Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT), and they will have a 6-month tenure.
A total of 13,50,792 samples have been tested so far, with 36,936 on Friday.
The minister tweeted that stringent action will be taken against private hospitals which do not cooperate with ‘arogyamithras’ (nodal officers) on bed availability.
ಕೋವಿಡ್ ಟೆಸ್ಟಿಂಗ್ ಲ್ಯಾಬ್ ಗಳ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯವನ್ನು ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಗರಿಷ್ಠ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ ಟೆಸ್ಟಿಂಗ್ ನಡೆಸಲು ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗುವಂತೆ ಈ ಕೂಡಲೇ 700 ಲ್ಯಾಬ್ ಟೆಕ್ನಿಷಿಯನ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು 700 ಡೇಟಾ ಆಪರೇಟರ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ನೇಮಕ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. @CMofKarnataka pic.twitter.com/cnPA8GG2Ar
— Dr Sudhakar K (@mla_sudhakar) July 31, 2020
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