PSAK offers support to Govt to fight coronavirus spread

Private Schools Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) on Wednesday offered its resources including buildings, transport and trained manpower to government for use in fight against spread of coronavirus.

In a statement, the Association said all private educationalinstitutes have voluntarily decided to help government with all possible waysto deal with the situation.

   

“We have been discussing all possible ways in which we couldhelp government in controlling the deadly disease. We have felt that there maybe need of our resources like buildings, vehicles or trained manpower and wehave offered it to government to make use of it in whatever way they seefeasible,” said G N Var, President PSAJK.

The Association decided to offer space in hundreds ofschools in entire Jammu and Kashmir. “Be it all big schools in Kashmir or inJammu and other districts everyone has offered their resources,” said Var. “Wehave also compiled a list of the buildings which we will be offering togovernment.”

The Association said given the situation in Italy or Spainthere was a need to be extra careful in moving ahead.

The Association appealed people in general and students inparticular who have arrived from outside not to hide their travel history.

“God forbid, if anyone of those persons has any symptoms, hemay subject his family and society to a lot of suffering. So, it is better toreveal travel history to the doctors and be safe,” said Var. “Some studentshave been complaining of bad quarantine facilities. We urge them to helpauthorities to improve facilities and not make ruckus or try to escape.”

The Association appealed people to cooperate with thegovernment with utmost seriousness. “If there is shutdown, don’t move outside.Don’t make any crowd. It will take only 14 days to control the situation if allof us maintain social distance and follow the rules,” said Var. “Otherwise itwill take a much longer time to control.”

The Association urged the authorities to increase thefrequency of Covid-19 tests so that all cases were identified and treated.

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