‘We Care’ programme for health workers launched
islamabad — The Ministry of National Health Services, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Tuesday launched a countrywide “We Care” programme for online training and guidance of medical professionals on health protocols and use of personal protection equipment (PPE) kits.
In this regard an agreement was signed between the Health Services Academy (HAS) and WHO at the National Command and Control Centre (NCOC).
WHO’s country head Dr Palitha Mahipala and special assistant to the prime minister on national health services Dr Zafar Mirza were also present on the occasion.
Later, in a media briefing about the programme, Dr Zafar Mirza said the main objective of this initiative was to start online professional training of over 100,000 frontline health workers across the country.
He said these frontline health workers were our real heroes and their safety and protection was the top priority of the government, adding that provision of PPE kits to the hospitals was no more an issue now.
He said the government had started providing PPE kits directly to the hospitals where coronavirus patients were under treatment through the National
Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
He added that sufficient quantity of health equipment was available for hospitals staff while provinces were also busy to ensure provision of PPE kits to hospitals.
Meanwhile, the tally of Covid-19 cases stood at 32,819 with 11,868 cases in Punjab, 12,610 in Sindh, 5,021 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2,061 in Balochistan, 457 in Gilgit-Baltistan, 716 in Islamabad and 86 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.—