Officials from the well being ministry, AIIMS, National Centre for Disease Control, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and NDMA are devising a mechanism together with state governments to place it into motion.

The new technique shall be offered subsequent week to well being minister Mansukh Mandaviya.

“We are going to create an emergency medical response crew for states to cope with future pandemic and environmental disasters like cyclone, earthquake or for any illness outbreak,” said a government official aware of the matter.

“During covid-19, we had set up central teams to manage the pandemic. At present, whenever any crisis occurs, the government deploys a team and sends them to the site. But once these teams are in place with the right training and knowledge to tackle any emergency then only a dedicated team will be deployed,” the official added.

The emergency medical response crew shall be a gaggle of healthcare professionals who will present direct scientific care to populations affected by outbreaks and emergencies to assist the native healthcare system.

“The plan is to arrange 100 groups consisting of specialist medical doctors like burn surgical specialists, public well being specialists and logistic specialists who would entry PPE (private protecting tools) kits and many others., directors, officers from NDRF, NDMA.

“We have been engaged on it for 20 days (about 3 weeks) and are doubtless to present the excellent plan to the minister by subsequent week,” mentioned the official.The coaching of the groups would begin as soon as the roadmap will get permitted by the federal government.

“Internationally, these groups are apt, standardized and ship rapid catastrophe response on the bottom. This is what we need to create in India,” said the official.