New Delhi Feb 23 PTI Sending a message of zero-tolerance towards poor work standard Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday exhorted heads of departments at the Safdarjung Hospital to evaluate performance and attendance of all employees to ensure the problems of absenteeism and poor-quality work are addressed Mandaviya visited the hospital on Wednesday and held an informal interactive session with staff of the Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College a Health Ministry statement said The minister stressed that there will be zero tolerance towards poor work standard at all levels No one should feel that absenteeism and poor performance shall go unnoticed he said Mandaviya exhorted heads of all departments to evaluate the performance and the attendance of all employees including security and contractual staff to ensure that absenteeism and poor-quality work is effectively addressed The minister emphasised on creating a performance-oriented work culture through efficient coordination with the goal of providing highest quality healthcare to patients the statement stated He urged everyone to instill the mentality of accepting criticism and working towards institutional building through shared goals aims and work culture Our goal should be how to provide the best healthcare to every patient who walks in When we have clarity on this goal and our resultant role all our actions will also become clear and action oriented Mandaviya stated The minister motivated all staff to work towards converting the Safdarjung Hospital into a highly reputed hospital of highest quality for the poor and underprivileged The ministry is committed to supporting the hospital in all its endeavour he said Mandaviya also advised the HoDs to meet their teams every week undertake physical visit of all departments and evaluate performances to ensure best output He said they had a huge advantage due the large number of patients that public hospitals treat and encouraged them to undertake analytical studies and publish them in reputed journals the statement said The minister praised Indian doctors for leaving an imprint globally due to efficient handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country He said It is now time to develop our healthcare model and show to the world our strengths in different aspects of healthcare pharma and RD He congratulated the hospital for receiving the first Kayakalp Award of Rs 3 crore Mandaviya spent more than 25 hours with HoDs nurses heads of security and sanitation services listening to their suggestions on quality hospital management clinical practices infection control measures and sanitation processes They shared their experience of working to provide round-the-clock services to the poor needy and underprivileged during the pandemic the statement said PTI PLB AAR AAR

New Delhi Sep 26 PTI India saw a single-day rise of 28326 new coronavirus infections taking the countrys total tally of cases to 33652745 according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday The death toll has climbed to 446918 with 260 daily fatalities according to the data updated at 8 am The active cases have increased to 303476 comprising 090 per cent of the total infections while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 9777 per cent the ministry said An increase of 2034cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours The daily positivity rate was recorded at 190per cent It has been less than 3 per cent for last 27 days Weekly positivity rate was recorded at 198 per cent It has been below 3 per cent for the last 93 days according to the Health Ministry The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to32902351 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 133 per cent The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 8560 crore Indias COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7 2020 30 lakh on August 23 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16 It went past 60 lakh on September 28 70 lakh on October 11 crossed 80 lakh on October 29 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19 India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 PTI PLB AAR AAR