Challa Madhusudan Reddy, Chairman of Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation, and N. Bangara Raju, General Manager, have partnered with FIND & Future Learn to launch a program to offer free online courses related to COVID-19.
Mr Reddy said the APSSDC, in collaboration with Future Learn and other international staff such as FIND, had brought on board content from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the African Society of Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), Public Health England and others Offer several online courses related to COVID-19.
Mr Raju said the online courses on COVID included diagnostics and testing, laboratory training, effective nursing in times of crisis, psychological first aid and online webinars from Royal Colleges of Physicians in Edinburgh and others. The virtual training sessions were aimed at improving the skills of professionals involved in COVID tasks from testing to treating patients such as lab managers, technicians, nurses and other health professionals.
APSSDC Executive Director DV Rama Koti Reddy and others attended.