Anticipating a shortage of health staff during a possible third wave of Covid-19, the Delhi government on Wednesday unveiled a plan to train 5,000 youths as 'community nursing assistants' who will be deployed across the capital.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said these youths will be given training in basic nursing, paramedic, life-saving, first aid, and home care, sample collection, oxygen concentrators and cylinder operations.
They will also be trained in patient care, diaper changing, catheter operation, bedpan, sample collection, operation of oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders and how to put on the mask among others.
The selected 5,000 people will work as assistants to doctors and nurses and will perform the tasks assigned by them.
From Thursday, all those aged above 18 years and have passed Class XII can apply for the two-week training programme. It will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
"I believe this move will strengthen our preparation for the third wave of Covid-19. Our aim is to learn from experiences across the globe such as the United Kingdom where the third wave has emerged, and to be fully prepared," Kejriwal said.
“In case a third wave emerges, we might also witness a shortage of medical and paramedical staff as we had seen during the second and the first waves. Keeping that in mind, the government has devised a big plan of training 5,000 health assistants. In technical terms, they are called Community Nursing Assistants. So 5,000 youngsters will be trained for two weeks by the IP University and by the 9 medical institutes of Delhi, where they will be given basic training," he said.
The training will start from June 28 in batches of 500.
(Published 16 June 2021, 07:42 IST)
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