Health Minister releases modules for post-covid treatment by healthcare workers

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya along with Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar released Post COVID Sequelae Modules to guide healthcare professionals on how to deal with long term effects of COVID.

The Union Health Minister asserted that proactive and comprehensive treatment of COVID will help in eliminating any negative side-effects from the treatment and long term-effects of the virus.

Elucidating on the need of sequelae modules to tackle post-covid side effects, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, “The perceptions related to Post-COVID that are perpetuating in our society like fears, mental health issues resulting due to COVID are important to be tackled. So, it’s important to understand these Post-COVID issues and resolve them. Efforts have been made by the resource persons across the country for the management of these post COVID complications to prepare post COVID sequelae modules. These are very specialized modules prepared by keeping in mind various fields of Healthcare Professionals.”

While emphasizing on the need to tackle mental health issues, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare said “This Pandemic has put an unprecedented challenge on our Health and Health Care System. Mental Health Care is a big challenge for a country with such a large population. We need to build our capacity to tackle this challenge of mental health. If the Frontline workers are equipped with proper knowledge and training, they can become a valuable resource in this fight against these post-COVID challenges.”

The release event also saw the attendance of Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, MoHFW, Dr. Sunil Kumar, DGHS and other senior officers of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.