UP Hospitals

With the cold wave prevailing over North India, government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow are witnessing a surge in patients with respiratory problems

The chief minister directed that Covid-19 tests of inmates of old age homes, juvenile homes and women protection homes should be carried out.

All OPDs had been shut earlier in March to prevent the spread of coronavirus and only emergency services remained in place

Posts of 7,328 doctors had been lying vacant for many years and the state government is now expediting the recruitment process to meet the shortage of doctors