Physical board exams were cancelled and thousands of students faced great difficulty studying in the online mode. The education sector remained affected by the pandemic throughout the year. On the whole, Assam achieved the landmark of administering three crore vaccinations for Covid. Assam crossed the initial target of vaccinating 2.13 crore people of the state with the first dose. A total of 5,057 people have died of Covid in the second wave so far, whereas over 4.02 lakh cases have been reported. However, the fighback continues amid Omicron scare, though the recovery rate has touched 98.7%. Nevertheless, the state had to struggle with Covid cases, which almost doubled in just nine months, if compared to the entire one year from Mato March 31, 2021. Medical education got a major boost in Assam when the MBBS course was officially inaugurated at the Diphu Medical College (DMC) in Karbi Anglong in February, taking the total number of MBBS seats in the state to 1,000. The number of MBBS seats in state medical colleges has gone up to 1,100 after the National Medical Commission (NMC) approved 100 seats for the newly built Lakhimpur Medical College, the eighth medical college of the state. The state government also accelerated its plan to construct 1,000 Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU), out of which the minimum goal was 10 in each district. Since the PM Cares Fund was launched last year, the Centre dispatched a total of 967 BEL ventilators to Assam and most of these were installed this year. The year 2021 was a landmark year in augmenting critical care facilities. Further, Assam achieved the feat of third best performing state in non-communicable disease and common cancer screening among northeast, hilly and tribal states.
Assam hogged the limelight as it emerged as the top state, which had made the maximum improvement among larger states in overall performance and is also among the top three most improved states in incremental performance as per NITI Aayog’s health index for 2019-20, which was released this week. For both critical care and medical education, the year was remarkable. Guwahati: The second wave of Covid-19, which hit people hard from all sections of society, gave a major boost to the state’s health infrastructure.
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