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Urban Health Mission: 51 docs, nurses to be hired on one-year contracts

PANAJI
The Directorate of Health Services (DHS) is hiring 51 personnel, including doctors, nurses, helpers and other staff, on one-year contracts to support its Urban health centres achieve goals set by National Urban Health Mission.

Thirteen of these positions are for doctors who will officiate as “health officers” and one post is for a “pharmacist”.

Eighteen from the lot of 51 contractual employees will have to be nursing graduates who will be hired as “staff nurses”.

The rest of the positions are for “support staff” (18) and one lower-division clerk.

Meanwhile, the Legislature Department has notified 10 regular basis posts, including those of junior assistants, multi-tasking staff and one electronics and communication engineer.

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Fire damages cashew plantations at Azossim

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Mar 8, 2025, 1:29 AM IST
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OLD GOAA fire broke out in the hillside cashew plantations at Corpir-Azossim on Friday afternoon in which a few cashew and other trees, firewood and bamboos were gutted.According to the Old Goa fire station, they received a call at around 3 pm of the fire after which they initiated a firefighting exercise under the supervision of firefighter Sunil Jalmi. The firefighters used water to douse the fire in the areas where the hose could reach. In the other areas, the…

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