MP gives Rs 15 lakh to Faridkot medical college

Strap: BFUHS employees donate Rs12 lakh to help govt fight Covid

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, April 1

All employees of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) and its constituent medical, nursing, physiotherapy and pharmacy colleges in the state donated their one-day salary to help government to check the spread of coronavirus on Wednesday.

BFUHS Vice-Chancellor Dr Raj Bahadur said, “It is our little contribution during this time of crisis and I am thankful to all my staff for their contribution.” The total of one-day salary of the BFUHS employees will be about Rs 12 lakh.

Mohammad Sadique, MP from Faridkot, has announced Rs 15 as help to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital (GGSMCH), Faridkot, from the MPLAD funds.

Meanwhile, GGSMCH with the help of University College of Nursing (UCON), Faridkot, on Wednesday started training and sensitisation of nursing staff, helpers and sweepers in the medical college and hospital here.

Dr Raj Bahadur said lots of rumours were doing the rounds about Covid-19 on social media, especially when it came to health and wellness suggestions, so UCON had taken up the responsibility of training and sensitizing the field workers of the hospital to the causes, prevention and symptoms of the virus.

He said there was information on social media being shared but was not supported by science and the training of the field staff was our response to this false information and myths about the corona disease.

During the training session, teaching staff of UCON said when giving or taking health advice, it was important to focus on the facts. It was important not to panic, but to prepare and educate yourself based on science and research.

The tutors said people should not take germs back to their houses. So, people should try to carry minimum things to their homes, leave your apron here or got these washed daily. People needed to remove their shoes outside their homes so as no germs could enter their houses.

They said instead of sensitising every patient in the hospital, they needed to convey them not to panic. Most of the patients asked for masks, but had a little knowledge about the importance of social distance, so they needed to be told about its importance.