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Odisha Govt Announces Weightage For Covid-19 Healthcare Workers In Recruitment Exams

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will give weightage and extra marks in the next recruitment examination to short-term healthcare workers who were engaged during Covid-19 pandemic.

During the pandemic, thousands of short-term healthcare workers like  Nursing Officers, Pharmacists, Radiographers, Laboratory Technicians, MPHW (M/F) were engaged in district headquarters hospitals, Medical College & Hospitals and Covid-care centers across  the state.

Considering the contributions of these short-term healthcare workers during the pandemic, the government, under the directions of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, has framed the “Odisha grant of weightage in marks in the Recruitment examinations in favour of Short-Term Covid-19 Healthcare workers Rules-2022,” an official release said.

Health and Family Welfare Secretary 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 5 per cent 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 these posts would be benefitted by this. The short term covid-19 workers thanked the Chief Minister and the government for this decision.

OB Bureau

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