Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shri Mansukh Mandaviya released Post Covid-19 sequelae modules in the presence of Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. These modules will act as a guide for doctors, nurses, paramedics and community health workers across India to deal with the long term effects of Covid-19

Mandaviya said that proactive and comprehensive treatment of Covid-19 is required to ensure minimum side effects and no negative effects of the treatment.

He further added, “We have witnessed the consequences of post-Covid-19 effect in patients as they consumed higher doses of steroids thereby leading to Mucormycosis. It is important to take medicines, with fewer or negligible side effects. If we are alert beforehand, it will be fruitful in tackling the future consequences of Covid-19. These are very specialized modules prepared by keeping in mind various fields of Healthcare Professionals.”

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar emphasized on the need to tackle mental health issues and said, “The 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-19 challenges. The training modules for mental health and other issues have been prepared based on the needs expressed by state health experts.” She added that we should all work together to ensure that COVID-19 becomes the last human Pandemic.

Shri Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, MoHFW, Dr. Sunil Kumar, DGHS and other senior officers of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare were also present.