A YouTube Channel to Train Healthcare Personnel on COVID-19

How must health officials conduct contact tracing when a person has tested positive for COVID-19? What is the correct and safest way to ferry a patient with the virus to the hospital?

These are questions all healthcare professionals are grappling with. To help create awareness and to ensure that the correct protocol is followed, the State government launched a YouTube channel — COVID-19 Training Task Force — on March 26.

The channel has around 1.46 lakh followers, including doctors, nurses, ASHAs and gram panchayat members. Over the next two days, the government plans to reach out to 60,000 people who are part of the village-level task force via the channel. Topics that will be addressed include social distancing and rules to follow during quarantine.