New Delhi, May 6 (UNI) The Indian Army on Thursday informed that In order to coordinate multiple facets of staffing and logistics support, an exclusive COVID Management Cell under a Director General rank officer has been set established which reports directly to the Vice Chief of Army Staff.
The officials in the Army headquarter said that this will bring in greater efficiency in coordinating real time responses to address exponential rise in COVID cases across the country including Delhi where assistance to civil administration in the form of testing, admissions in military hospitals and transportation of critical medical equipment etc are already being provided.
Keeping itself on the forefront to aid the civil administration during the second surge of the pandemic, the Indian Army has deployed considerable medical resources to the civil authorities especially at the five COVID hospitals already functional or in the process of being established at Delhi, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Varanasi and Patna, the Army said in a statement.