21,000 workers being trained: Manyal
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 8: BJP national general secretary and in charge J&K and Ladakh UTs, Tarun Chugh today said that a nationwide campaign has been launched by his party to prepare and train lakhs of health workers to combat the third wave of COVID pandemic.
Addressing party workers at Chandigarh, he said that Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and the BJP national president, JP Nadda have been together monitoring the preparation of the health workers’ force all over the country who will reach every nook and corner of the country.
Chugh said the BJP would be preparing the largest army of health workers in the world which would serve the humanity and defeat the pandemic decisively.
Chugh said two Apps have been also launched to help COVID patients know where could they get treatment for themselves or their family members in case of any eventuality.
He said by August end the health workers would be trained and positioned all over the country.
Meanwhile BJP to train 21,000 Health volunteers both male and female in Jammu Kashmir, party general secretary, Dr D K Manyal told reporters here today.
He said BJP Jammu Kashmir is going to launch National Health Volunteer Campaign in Jammu tomorrow.
Manyal said that the national campaign was launched at New Delhi by national president of the party J P Nadda where in 120 health volunteers from 30 States and UTs were trained. A team of four health volunteers and one IT Incharge led by Dr D K Manyal from Jammu Kashmir also attended this training. The others who attended this training were Munish Sharma, Arvind Gupta, Dr Farida Khan from Kashmir and Ishant Mahajan IT Incharge.
Dr Manyal informed that continuing the process tomorrow a team of about 110 health Volunteers will be attending the training programme at party office, Trikuta Nagar. The campaign was started by BJP to tackle and handle COVID 19 affected people and to aware the people regarding pandemic and for the better management of patients in case the 3rd Wave hits India .
Shiv Parkash, national Seh-Sanghtan Mahamantri will be the chief guest of the event along with Ravinder Raina president BJP J&K and Ashok Koul organising general secretary.
Volunteers from the 10 districts of the UT will be attending this training comprising for Health workers along with Prabhari and Seh Prabhari of the each district.
Expert doctors will be providing the training to the volunteers, regarding early detection of cases, awareness, sanitization, vaccination and treatment in case a patient is found positive. The volunteers will be provided a pulse oxymeter, thermal scanner, a thermometer, a kit of immunity boosting drugs along with guide booklet containing all information regarding COVID-19.
The volunteers will be working in their respective areas and will help the people if at all any case of COVID is detected in their village.
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