Preparing for the third wave of Covid-19 - Aster Hospitals, Bangalore announce upskilling courses for Healthcare Workers
by Shrutee K Bangalore, Aug 02, 2021 – Keeping up with its commitment to save several lives, Aster Hospitals, Bangalore commenced an Advanced Life Support Training in Paediatrics with Special focus around COVID in Children. This course is for healthcare workers to educate and train 50 frontline individuals in COVID-related care and treatment protocols. These courses aim to train healthcare professionals in tackling the third wave and enable them to assist the doctors while they are treating the patients. The customized training schedule varying from 2 days intensive workshop to 6 weeks self-paced course will include 50 nurse trainees and Rapid response team members in the first batch who will be taught about Basic and Advanced Life support, Identification of a sick child, COVID specific - signs, symptoms, clinical course, and early warning scores for hospitalized patients under monitoring, etc. Additionally, the healthcare group is also conducting simulation-based...