Over one lakh COVID warriors will be trained and upskilled as part of the initiative. COVID warriors will get training in six different employment such as:

1. Home Care Support
2. Basic Care Support
3. Advanced Care Support
4. Emergency Care Support,
5. Sample Collection Support
6. Medical Equipment Support

With a total budget of INR 276 crore, the initiative has been created as a unique component of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0. The program will train qualified non-medical healthcare employees to meet the health sector’s current and future personnel demands.

The goal of the program is to train enough non-medical healthcare workers to fill up the gaps in the country’s healthcare infrastructure and satisfy future demands. Participants in the program will be trained for three weeks if they are learning new skills and one week if they are upskilling.

For three months, these future healthcare workers will be placed in various public and private healthcare organizations across India. The government will give food, housing, and a stipend to this personnel to promote participation from private hospitals and diagnostic centers.

The non-medical healthcare workers’ crash course training and performance will be constantly evaluated. After three months of on-the-ground training, these employees will be recertified to create a 1 lakh frontline force capable of fighting and defeating COVID-19.

India’s hospitals are primarily concentrated in cities, and both urban and rural regions have poor basic healthcare. There is a severe lack of qualified health workers in India’s healthcare system, including physicians and paramedical personnel such as nurses and laboratory technicians. The move to strengthen the country’s healthcare system will be critical in combating the deadly coronavirus.