COVID-19 health consultants to be hired for Rajasthan villages
The Hindu
The new healthcare workforce will help in the household surveys to identify and treat the patients.
Amid the surge in COVID-19 positive cases in villages, action has been initiated for appointing health consultants and health assistants in Rajasthan’s rural areas following a recommendation by medical bodies and research institutions. As many as 1,000 consultants will be hired in the State by July 31 this year. Both consultants and assistants will be selected by the Civil Defence Department on the lines of volunteers hired for disaster relief work, Medical and Health Minister Raghu Sharma said here on Friday. The new healthcare workforce will help in the household surveys to identify and treat the patients. COVID-19 health consultants will be medical graduates willing to work as public health professionals, while health assistants will be qualified as nurses, having completed a general nursing and midwifery course. The latter will be sent to primary and community health centres as well as district hospitals’ COVID-19 care centres.More Related News