KK Shailaja, NIV director receive Janani award instituted by IHW

By: WE Staff | Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Postgraduate students at government medical colleges who are resident doctors have been hard at work in Covid wards for the past 14 months. Residents, as well as Lecturers, Professors, Nodal Officers, and Deans from all colleges, have been working around the clock in various capacities to serve covid19 patients. With a third wave expected to hit the pediatric population, resident doctors at the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors- B J Medical College unit said they would have to keep fighting the virus.

“As a result, we are not able to learn our subject specialty to the extent that we need to learn them as students,” Dr. Vijay Yadav, President, MARD-BJMC unit said. MARD office bearers in an official statement today have urged authorities that they should consider these issues and waive off the fees waiving off fees for the academic years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022.

Dr. Priya Abraham, Director of the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, was presented with the prestigious Janani Awards by Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, for her contribution to Medical Research Leadership.

Janani Awards, instituted by the Integrated Health and Wellbeing (IHW) Council to celebrate the exemplary contribution of women leaders in the making of a healthier nation on the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, is a part of ‘Shapath 1000 Days’, a three-year-long multisectoral collective led by the IHW Council launched earlier this year that will help the government’s efforts to improve women’s health parameters in the worst-affected districts of India, a statement issued today has said.