Jamia Hamdard launches Covid-19 management programme for ward boys and attendants

Jamia Hamdard has launched the Covid-19 Management training programme for ward boys and attendants.

Covid-19 has affected the life and health of more than 2.7 crore people in India and more than 168 million worldwide. A pandemic of such magnitude overwhelmed many countries’ healthcare systems and of course affected the healthcare providers such as nurses fighting on the frontlines to safeguard the lives of everyone affected. Finding out the solution to the issues that nurses face during their battle will help support them to improve their preparedness and the process of rendering care for the Covid patients. There are many negative impacts because of which the quality of care and the health status of the nurses are affected. These include the risk of getting infected at the work place and further infecting the family members consequently leading to impaired mental health status. Such issues have made Jamia Hamdard to come up with a realization that, there is an urgent need of training more people as ward attendants to work under the supervision of staff nurses to be able to support them with the non-technical work required in the hospital. The training is envisioned by Chancellor Hamid Ahmed and the Delhi Police commissioner in view of having less burden on the staff nurses for treating all the patients well for a better outcome. The objectives of the training are to establish holistic care for the patients admitted in the ward, to maintain the sound mental and physical health of the staff working for the Covid-19 patients, and to maintain the smooth running of the departmental work.