NEW DELHI: The government is creating one hundred groups to respond to physical emergencies, adding pandemics, following the model of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
Officials from the Ministry of Health, AIIMS, the National Center for Disease Control, the National Disaster Assistance Response Force (NDRF) and the NDMA are devising a mechanism with state governments to put it into effect.
The new strategy will be next week for Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
“We will create an emergency medical response team for states to deal with protracted pandemics and environmental errors such as cyclones, earthquakes or any epidemic,” said a government official familiar with the matter.
“During covid-19, we established core groups to manage the pandemic. Currently, a crisis occurs, the government deploys a team and sends them to the site. But once those groups are in position with the right education and wisdom to deal with any emergency, only a committed team will be deployed. “
The Emergency Medical Response Team will be an organization of fitness professionals that will provide direct clinical care to populations affected by epidemics and emergencies to the local fitness system.
“The plan is to establish a hundred groups composed of medical specialists such as burn surgery specialists, public fitness experts and logistics experts who would have PPE (personal protective equipment) kits, etc. , administrators, NDRF officials, NDMA officials.
“We have been running it for 20 days (about 3 weeks) and will deliver the full plan to the minister until next week,” the official said. The team’s education will begin once the government approves the roadmap.
“Internationally, these groups are adapted, standardized and provide a quick reaction to mistakes on the ground. This is what we need to create in India,” the official said.
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