All Universities Request HEC for a Special COVID-19 Package to Fully Implementation SOPs

 Considering the predominant COVID-19 pandemic, the Vice-Chancellors (VCs) of the apparent multitude of public and private colleges have mentioned the legislature to give an exceptional bundle to colleges to empower them to actualize the necessary SOPs successfully and forestall episodes on grounds. 

The college heads met online to audit the consistency of 'Coronavirus wellbeing and security conventions' and offer the accepted procedures presented for the security of understudies, personnel, and staff against the spread of COVID-19 at their foundations.

Tending to the gathering, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman, Tariq Banuri, offered his thanks for the huge initiative showed by the Vice Chancellors in such a manner. He said that while the legislature and HEC had given thorough rules, the genuine test was in the field, and the circumstance stayed leveled out on many grounds in light of the opportune and creative methodology taken by college pioneers.

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Punjab, Dr. Niaz Akhtar, explained the point by point activities taken to forestall any flare-ups and to separate and treat any episode. He said that the most basic activity was to present for all individuals from the college the significance of watching fundamental security conventions like wearing a veil consistently, washing hands habitually, and keeping up social separation.

The universities had to help this by legitimate perception and reconnaissance, quick segregation and clinical consideration for suspected cases, utilization of crossover showing techniques (through money related impetuses), giving understudies the choice of going to classes on the web, and presenting security measures in eating and different administrations.

Other Vice-Chancellors shared data on the inventive practices they have presented on their grounds. These incorporate the improvement of COVID-19 testing mastery in college labs at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, the utilization of overflow study halls to decrease thickness at Peshawar University, giving advising to understudies to adapt to the predominant vulnerability and presenting motivations for agreeing to SOPs at Lahore University of Management Sciences. 

Moreover, the utilization of shaded cards for understudies going to morning and evening classes at Karakoram International University, exploiting the digitization of cycles at Sargodha University to limit the requirement for direct contact, and training understudies about COVID and it's a probable future pattern at various colleges was likewise energized.