This 4-hour free online course offers practical, demonstration-based, and immediately applicable support in the areas of infection prevention and control in the COVID-19 crisis, use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the role of nurses in handling COVID-19 patients and self-care.
The current pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities of women more than their male counterparts within their homes, the labour market and as frontline healthcare workers. It has increased their unpaid work as caregivers, magnified pay disparities and widened the existing gender divide with its inequalities.
The frontline workers wear the protective gears while working in a high-risk area, such as the emergency department or those managing patients with severe acute respiratory infection.
As there was shortage of PPE in the country and abroad, the apparel industry in Punjab has shifted to the business and got due approvals from SITRA and DRDO.
All the 36 districts are affected in the state which has reported 3,590 deaths and 97,648 cases till Friday 8 am.
Sources said that two health staff wearing the personal protection equipment (PPE) and taking other precautionary measures will go about in different places in the van and collect the samples from people around.
According to reports, around 40,000 women belonging to self-help groups in Andhra Pradesh are earning Rs 500 per day by making face masks.
Goutam Bhattacharya, Chief Post Master General of West Bengal Postal Circle told The Statesman that the circle has dispatched medical consignments to cities like Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Guwahati and even Varanasi from its Kolkata sorting hub, situated besides the NSB International airport in Dum Dum.
Not that these are value additions to the English language, but the lexicon may yet serve as a brief introduction to medical history in the first half of the 21st century.
The actor has donated Rs 3 crore to BMC for the manufacture of PPE, masks, and rapid testing kits, in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
