All medical personnel who retired from the armed forces in the last two years will be recalled and deployed at Covid facilities near their homes, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on monday during review meeting.
The review was carried out in a meeting between the prime minister and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat.
Briefing the PM about preparations made by the armed forces to help in the country’s war against the virus, General Rawat said oxygen cylinders available with the military will be diverted to the hospitals that desperately need the live-saving gas amid the rapid second wave of Covid infections.
Other retired medical officers have also been asked to provide consultations through emergency help lines, according to a government statement.
In addition to deploying additional medical officers, doctors and nurses at the hospitals, the armed forces are aiming to make military-grade medical infrastructure available to civilians, CDS Bipin Rawat informed the Prime Minister.
The CDS also said the military was creating medical facilities in large numbers and the infrastructure will be opened for civilians wherever possible.
Meanwhile, PM also reviewed the operations being undertaken by the Air Force to ferry oxygen and other essentials within India and from abroad.
