As many as 500 youths from the district will be trained in severalhealthcare servicesto tackle the expected third wave of Covid.
There is shortage of skilled healthcare workers at various levels like operating medical devices, ambulances, Covid care centres, collecting and testing swab samples.
The youths will be trained in six courses which includes Home care support to monitor home isolated patients, basic care support for primary Health Services, advanced care support for advanced medical services, emergency care support for emergency medical services, medical equipment support to operate equipment in Covid hospitals and collecting swab samples and testing through RT-PCR.