COVID-19 surge | PM Modi requests NGOs, volunteer groups to lessen burden on medical care professionals
The assembly additionally went into provide points with regard to medical sources, with Prime Minister Modi emphasising that there ought to be a seamless motion of provides throughout geographies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, whereas reviewing the work of empowered groups on COVID-19 requested Non Governmental Organisations and volunteer groups together with ex-servicemen be tapped to perform non-specialised duties to lessen the burden on medical care professionals.
A press release launched after the assembly by the federal government stated, “PM asked the officials to explore how volunteers from civil society can be utilised to lessen the pressure on healthcare sector by invoking them in non-specialised tasks. It was discussed that NGOs could help to establish and maintain lines of communication between the patients, their dependents & health care personnel. Ex Servicemen could be encouraged to handle call centres for communicating with people under home quarantine.”
NGOs and civil society groups have been asking for some reduction by way of releasing cumbersome compliance necessities on donations particularly from overseas, whereas the federal government has, until now, stored a tough stance on the problem.
The assembly additionally went into provide points with regard to medical sources, with Prime Minister Modi emphasising that there ought to be a seamless motion of provides throughout geographies.
Relief measures to the poor, with the announcement that free rations of upto 5 kilos of meals grains to 80 crore beneficiaries beneath the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana was additionally reviewed on the assembly.