Kathmandu, March 15
The Nepal Army is training its health workers about handling coronavirus positive cases. The national military organisation has set up 48 tents outside its headquarters as a dummy quarantine site to conduct the training.
The army spokesperson Bigya Dev Pandey says the training sessions will begin Monday and around 50 health workers in the military organisation will participate. “We will demonstrate to the trainees what a quarantine site looks like, how the infected people are quarantined and how they should be treated,” he informs, “We hope that they will implement the learning in their working area whenever the situation demands.”
The army has prepared a 10-bed isolation ward in its Chhauni-based hospital for any infected persons. Pandey says the headquarters has directed its regional hospitals in Itahari, Pokhara, and Nepalgunj also to prepare isolation wards.
