Faridkot's Baba Farid University to recruit 143 paramedics

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, May 29

Amid growing pressure on medical and paramedical staff in government medical colleges of the state, the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) is going to conduct a written test to recruit 143 paramedics on Sunday here.

About 1,400 candidates will appear in the test at six exam centres. The test is for the posts in various departments such as anaesthesia, ECG, cardiac, dialysis, audiometry, CSSD, MGPS, gas plant, etc. As it is mandatory for all candidates to produce a rapid antigen test report at the examination centre, so one isolation exam centre has also been set up for the Covid-positive candidates. As per the latest information from the BFUHS, six candidates have tested positive, so they would appear for the test at the isolation exam centre.

Other than making recruitment of the paramedical staff, the Department of Medical Education and Research is going to hire services of specialist doctors.

Post-graduate doctors in microbiology and anaesthesia are in a high demand in the medical colleges in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. Amritsar and Patiala medical colleges have a demand of 22 anaesthetists.

After the outbreak, anaesthetists are required by hospitals, especially for intubating Covid patients on ventilators at the intensive care units.

“They insert intravenous injection lines, food pipes, intubate ventilator patients and manage extremely critical cases,” said Dr Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor, BFUHS.