Summary:
Gurgaon: As Covid cases in Gurgaon continue to surge, with over 27,000 active cases at present, the District Administration is now looking to rope in volunteer doctors and other medical staff who may be “fit and willing” to offer their services in the fight against Covid-19.
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Gurgaon: As Covid cases in Gurgaon continue to surge, with over 27,000 active cases at present, the District Administration is now looking to rope in volunteer doctors and other medical staff who may be “fit and willing” to offer their services in the fight against Covid-19.
According to officials, doctors, nurses, MBBS students as well as retired government doctors, private doctors, and those retired from the Armed Forces Medical Services can volunteer to offer their services as part of this initiative.
“As we are planning to set up makeshift hospitals, we will require manpower for them.
Existing hospitals are already completely stretched so if I have to make a makeshift hospital function, if any qualified doctor wishes to volunteer their services, they are more than welcome,” said Yash Garg, Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon.
“This added manpower is for any further hospital or bed enhancement where we will require doctors and nurses to man them,” he said.
Those seeking to volunteer their services, officials said, will have to fill out a form that, apart from their name, email ID, contact number, and age, asks them to also specify if they are residents of Gurgaon as well as their qualification, with the options under this latter category including MBBS, MD/MS, B.Pharmacy, Bsc.
Nursing, and Experienced Health Worker.
The volunteers also have to specify their “preferred medium of support” i.e.