Delhi Government will train and hire 5,000 community nursing assistants in the coming weeks as it readies itself for a possible third wave. As per the information from the UK, a third wave has emerged there. So, we should also be fully prepared, keeping in mind the developments all over the world, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on wednesday. The nursing assistants will be deployed at hospitals and other healthcare facilities to support the existing staff, including doctors. Kejriwal said the online application process would begin on June 17 and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University would star training of the selected candidates by the end of this month. All those who have passed Class 12 are eligible to become community nursing assistants. They must be above 18 years and applications will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis. "In case a third wave emerges, we may also witness a shortage of medical and paramedical staff as we had seen during the first and second waves. Keeping that in mind the government has devised a big plan of training 5,000 health assitances. In technical terms, they are called community nursing assistants, the chief minister said while addressing a press conference on the planned manpower augmentation. They will be given basic training for two weeks. The training will start from June 28 in batches of 500, and each batch will be trained for two weeks. Later, they will be paid according to the number of days they work, the chief minister said. The community nursing assistants will be trained in basic nursing paramedic work, lifesavinig first aid, home care, sample collection, and oxygen concentrator and cylinder operations, among others, Kejriwal said. They will be trained for basic things such as how to measure oxygen and blook pressure and how to administer vaccines.
