Early Times Report
Jammu, May 18: Round the clock (24x7), they are on their toes to assist and help the COVID patients arriving at various government run hospitals for the treatment across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Standing tall, Jammu and Kashmir State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) men, risking their lives to save many, for the past more than two months, have been assisting the administration shoulder to shoulder in fight against the COVID pandemic but these silent workers, still remained the ‘unsung heroes’.
“The SDRF teams are deployed at various government hospitals across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to help COVID patients and their attendants,” sources in J&K Civil Defence, Home Guard and SDRF (a sister concern of J&K Police) here said. They said that similarly, the teams are also deployed at Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu, Government Hospital, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu and Government Hospital, Sarwal, Jammu adding, “the SDRF Rescue Teams are deployed in shifts at these locations on weekly rotations.”
“The teams are also being issued N95 Masks, PPE Kits, hand sanitizers, a set of two gloves, surgical masks before deployment,” they said, adding that isolation buildings have also been created at the Battalion Headquarters where the teams have to report after scheduled duties. |
