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The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on Monday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the preparations undertaken by the armed forces to deal with the ferocious second wave of covid-19 infections, the government said in a statement
NEW DELHI : The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on Monday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the preparations undertaken by the armed forces to deal with the ferocious second wave of covid-19 infections, the government said in a statement .
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on Monday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the preparations undertaken by the armed forces to deal with the ferocious second wave of covid-19 infections, the government said in a statement .
“The CDS briefed the Prime Minister that all medical personnel from armed forces who have retired or taken pre-mature retirement in the last two years were being recalled to work in covid facilities within the proximity of their present places of residence," it added.
“The CDS briefed the Prime Minister that all medical personnel from armed forces who have retired or taken pre-mature retirement in the last two years were being recalled to work in covid facilities within the proximity of their present places of residence," it added.
“Other medical officers who retired earlier have also been requested to make their services available for consultation through medical emergency helplines," Rawat told the PM.
Those medical officers currently on staff appointments at command headquarters, Corps headquarters, Division headquarters and headquarters of the Indian Navy and Air Force will be employed at hospitals. Nursing personnel were also being employed in large numbers to accompany the doctors, he told the PM.
Rawat said that oxygen cylinders available with the armed forces will be given for civilian use. Besides, the army will also set up military-grade medical infrastructure to treat civilians.
India is struggling with a more infectious second wave of covid-19 infections with hospitals and nursing homes struggling to cope with the large influx of critically-ill patients, as well as a shortage of medical oxygen, essential drugs and hospital beds.
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