{"id":83825,"date":"2021-02-19T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T11:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=83825"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:51:52","slug":"pm-suggested-special-visa-scheme-for-medical-staff-in-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-suggested-special-visa-scheme-for-medical-staff-in-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"PM suggested &#8220;Special Visa Scheme&#8221; for medical staff in South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During an address to 9 neighboring countries, PM suggested Special Visa Scheme. The address was part of a workshop on \u201cCOVID-19 management: exchange of good practices in tackling pandemic and the way forward\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participation: <\/strong>The countries that participated in the workshop include: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways from the address:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Special Visa Scheme: <\/strong>PM suggested considering a special visa scheme for doctors and nurses. It will help them to travel quickly within the region during health emergencies at the request of the receiving country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regional Air Ambulance: <\/strong>The Civil Aviation Ministries from the neighboring countries can coordinate a regional Air Ambulance agreement for medical contingencies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data on COVID-19 vaccines: <\/strong>The countries could come together to create a regional platform for collating, compiling, and studying data about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines among our populations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GHU89T0KL.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? During an address to 9 neighboring countries, PM suggested Special Visa Scheme. The address was part of a workshop on \u201cCOVID-19 management: exchange of good practices in tackling pandemic and the way forward\u201d. Participation: The countries that participated in the workshop include: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-suggested-special-visa-scheme-for-medical-staff-in-south-asia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM suggested &#8220;Special Visa Scheme&#8221; for medical staff in South Asia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,164,9],"tags":[1457,1289],"class_list":["post-83825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_02","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704930436},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}