Maharashtra to rope in 6000 paediatricians to combat the 3rd wave of Covid-19

With the third wave of Covid-19 anticipated to hit in the next six to seven months, Maharashtra’s nine-member paediatric Covid-19 task force will be reaching out to 6,000 paediatricians in the state over 15 days to prepare them for the onslaught. The uphill task is to make the system ready to deal with paediatric cases. A task force member said that creating a nursing team and intensivists to handle patients in the ICU will be a challenge. Watch this video for more