#national health mission recruitment 2021

[vanishingmoments]

I was reading through Nas Al Sudan's template email to send to US senators and house representatives and it actually is pretty informative on what is going on and what actually needs to be rallied for more specifically than "stop the violence":

"Dear *recipient's occupation* *recipient's name(s)*, My name is *sender's name* and I am your constituent in *sender's state*. I am writing to you nearly eight months after intense fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15th, 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), leading to what the UN has recognized as a humanitarian nightmare. Over 12,000 people have been killed and an estimated 5.1 million have been forcibly displaced within Sudan since the beginning of the conflict and an additional 1.2 million outside the nation, with Sudan now constituting the world’s largest and fastest growing internal displacement crisis. Due to the targeting of journalists in Sudan and limited access to international networks, however, please take note that these numbers likely fall short of the actual devastating truth.

Fighting between the SAF and the RSF has impacted all 18 provinces, crippling infrastructure, placing between 70% and 80% of hospitals out of service, and resulting in grave violations of human rights as violence, abuse, and exploitation of women and children reach unprecedented levels by way of killing, maiming, child recruitment, sexual violence, and arbitrary detention. Furthermore, the RSF is complicit in all of these crimes, including the accusation of genocide in West Darfur, which the ICC has opened an investigation into, and the entry and occupation of homes along with looting, raping, and killing of residents - the result of which are horrific stories, videos, and images shared by witnesses and survivors who are unable to address the anxiety, depression, and PTSD of their experiences - as they remain forgotten in an environment of daily conflict. Beyond this, the humanitarian toll of this conflict is horrifying, with the United Nations terming the current situation in Sudan a “humanitarian catastrophe.” Today, millions of Sudanese people, particularly in Khartoum, Darfur, and Kordofan lack access to basic services, such as food, water, shelter, health, and education. 7.4 million children lack access to safe drinking water and are at risk of waterborne disease and 3.4 million children under the age of five are at high risk of diarrheal diseases and cholera. Furthermore, the WHO and UNICEF have announced that disruptions of health and nutrition services in Sudan could cost over 10,000 young lives by the end of 2023. In addition, an estimated 19 million children are currently out of school in Sudan, and as this crisis continues, these numbers will only worsen.

Thus far, international mediation efforts have utterly failed at achieving any sort of understanding between the two warring forces, with the SAF and the RSF blatantly disregarding commitments to de-escalate fighting, minimize civilian harm, and refrain from disproportionate attacks. Clashes between the two groups have continued and expanded throughout the nation, with the war now approaching its eighth month with no end in sight to bring a peaceful resolution to the conflict. The second round of Jeddah talks conducted in late October clearly failed to produce any sort of negotiations on bringing an end to the conflict, and the UN’s decision to end its political mission established after the 2019 revolution to aid with the transition, UNITAMS, sends quite a clear message that the international community has abandoned hope for Sudan’s future.

The Sudanese people have played no part in this conflict; two forces currently fight to rule a country, neither of which were chosen by its people. It was the international community, including the United States, that waysided the civilians and legitimized the rule of the military, accepting the coup on October 25th, 2021 that laid the groundwork for this war with the belief that it would lead to personal gain. Now, the international community, and more specifically, the United States, bears a responsibility to the Sudanese people and its large Sudanese diaspora to provide humanitarian relief to civilians and to apply pressure to help mediate an end to the conflict. Today, the revised 2023 Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), updated in May of 2023, just a month into the conflict and devastation, requires $2.6 billion to provide life-saving multi-sectoral and protection assistance to 18.1 million people in desperate need through the end of this year. As of December 6th, $989.3 million has been donated, with the US contributing roughly $546.5 million. This total constitutes a mere 39% of the level of need estimated nearly 7 months ago, and means that the global community has quite simply failed to meet even a fraction of the level of humanitarian assistance required in Sudan, with the UN estimating 24.7 million people need humanitarian assistance in Sudan, 6.6 million more Sudanese individuals in need than the 18.1 million target the Sudan HRP accounts for in its $2.6 billion goal.

In short, Sudan needs more humanitarian aid funding, at a much more rapid pace, to close in on the gap of the increasing humanitarian assistance needed among Sudanese people. In comparison, though Sudan’s humanitarian toll has surpassed that of Ukraine, the United States has provided over $3.9 billion exclusively in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, which is over 7 times that provided to Sudan, not to mention the amount provided in military, security and financial aid, which altogether has topped $76.8 billion. Similarly, last month the House of Representatives authorized an emergency $14.5 billion military aid package to the Israeli occupation, a number aside from the $3.8 billion contributed annually, thereby signalling support for and contribution to the active genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, over 15000 of whom have been killed by the occupation force’s assault since October 7th. Thus, given the fact that the United States clearly bears ample funding for foreign aid and its complicity in the perpetuation of the crisis in Sudan, the United States has a moral obligation to address the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.

I call on you, *recipient's name(s)*, for tangible support of the Sudanese people - ensuring they receive equitable and just support rather than falling victim to selective empathy or inadequate differentiating systems. Below are our demands:

1. Appoint a Special Envoy. The U.S. Government, either through a Presidential Appointment process or through Congressional legislative actions, should appoint a Special Envoy for Sudan to ensure the prioritization of direct negotiations for humanitarian assistance, peace negotiations, and engagement with neighboring countries. The Envoy will advocate for accountability of all parties responsible for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes against Sudanese civilians.

2. Call for an immediate ceasefire. The U.S. should utilize effective pressure to support a broad international coalition to achieve an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, a monitoring mechanism, safe corridors for humanitarian aid, and resumption of suspended aid operations.

3. Increase development and humanitarian aid to NGOs operating internally in Sudan focused on food and medical aid distribution. The United States government should ensure the safety of food and medical aid to the Sudanese people through NGOs such as the World Food Programme and the Red Crescent. Sudan is on the brink of famine with 43% of the population suffering from acute food insecurity - 6.3 million of which is a direct result of the conflict - and diseases are spreading. The United States government should work to ensure the safe passage of humanitarian aid convoys.

4. Apply the Arms Export Control Act and Enforce International Traffic in Arms Regulations and Export Administration Regulations on Sudan. The U.S. Government should strictly enforce current legislative tools, like the Arms Export Control Act, and enforce governmental mechanisms to prevent the export and proliferation of military-relevant items directly and indirectly to Sudan, including preventing the illicit flow of arms to non-state actors and private military companies.

5. Work on the international level to expand the UN Arms Embargo on Sudan and Consider Additional Mechanisms. The U.S. should utilize its role as a permanent member of the UNSC to reaffirm, renew, and expand the existing UN arms embargo and other sanctions on Darfur, Sudan to include the entirety of Sudan, key individuals in SAF and RSF, and human rights violators. The Sudanese people believe in freedom, peace, and justice. They gave their lives to bring about democracy in the nation, and the international community, and more specifically, the United States betrayed them through the legitimization of military forces. Will you act now, *recipient's name(s)*, to ensure that the United States government is supporting the Sudanese diaspora in the US by meeting the requirements stated above before the crisis further worsens?

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[thxnews]

DR of the Congo Grapples with Escalating Child Violations

  Crisis Unfolds in DRC

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 28 September 2023 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) faces an unprecedented crisis as it heads towards a third consecutive year of record-high verified grave violations against children in 2023.   Escalating Violence and Dire Consequences Intensified violence, massive population displacement, and the dangerous proximity of armed groups to communities are driving a distressing surge in cases involving the killing, maiming, and abduction of children in the DRC. If current trends continue, the nation is on track to exceed the records established since the United Nations Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism's inception in 2005, surpassing the grim benchmarks of 2022.  

Urgent Calls for Protection

UNICEF's Director of Child Protection, Sheema Sen Gupta, who conducted a week-long mission to the DRC, expressed her deep concern, stating, “I met children who survived the horrors of recruitment and use by armed groups and the unspeakable trauma of sexual violence – atrocities that no one should experience, let alone children. These harrowing stories underscore the urgency for the government to intensify its efforts to safeguard civilians – especially the most vulnerable, the country’s children – and actions needed from partners and donors to be able to scale up our prevention and response activities.”   Alarming Statistics The latest data reveals a staggering 41 percent increase in the number of verified grave violations against children during the first half of 2023 compared to the same period the previous year. In all of 2022, there were 3,377 grave violations against 2,420 children, as reported in the June 2023 Children and Armed Conflict - Report of the Secretary-General.   Disturbing Trends Recruitment and use of children in armed groups have surged by 45 percent in the first six months of the year. In 2022, 1,545 children – some as young as 5 years old – were verified as having been recruited and used by armed groups. Killing and maiming of children increased by 32 percent during the same period, compared to 699 cases in the previous year.   Alarming Escalation Rape and other acts of sexual violence against children and abduction of children are also witnessing an alarming escalation. In both 2021 and 2022, DRC had the world’s highest levels of verified cases of sexual violence against children committed by armed forces and armed groups. Moreover, in 2022, 730 children were verified as abducted, marking it as the highest number of abductions ever verified by the United Nations in the DRC. “This violence is unacceptable. We call on all parties to the conflict to take measures to prevent and end all grave violations against children,” added Sen Gupta.  

Escalating Humanitarian Crisis

Since violence erupted in October 2022, an astounding 1.5 million people have fled for their lives in eastern DRC, compelling them to leave their homes, livelihoods, and communities. This mass displacement has disrupted children's access to education. Currently, eastern DRC hosts a total of 6.1 million displaced people.   UNICEF's Response In response to the escalating violations and urgent needs, UNICEF has provided more than 100,000 children with mental health and psychosocial support services. Additionally, the organization has assisted more than 6,300 survivors of gender-based violence since the beginning of the year. Despite these efforts, UNICEF has only received 11 percent of the required funds for its child protection response under UNICEF’s emergency appeal in eastern DRC, leaving many needs unmet.   Sources: THX News & UNICEF. Read the full article

[jon-purizhansky]

Yoel Razvozov joins Joblio Inc.’s Board of Advisors

The former Israeli Minister of Tourism and Knesset Member brings a wealth of knowledge of immigration, finance, protection of human rights, cross-cultural integration, and cross-border relations to Joblio’s diverse panel of expert advisors.

Tel Aviv, Israel — Joblio Inc. (joblio.co), the transparent and tech-enabled ethical recruitment platform for international talent, has announced the appointment of Yoel Razvozov to the company’s Board of Advisors.

Razvozov, who was the Minister of Tourism of the State of Israel from 2021-2022 and a Member of the Knesset for 10 years until his political retirement in 2023, is an expert in matters of immigration, finance, and cross-border relations. He also is a world-recognized Judo champion, having served as captain of Israel’s national team and representing Israel in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

An immigrant himself, Razvozov’s family moved to Israel from Russia when he was 11, following the fall of the Soviet Union. His personal and career accomplishments have positioned him to make a meaningful impact on Joblio’s prestigious Board of Advisors.

A graduate of Reichman University’s Faculty of Business Administration with a specialization in Finance, Razvozov’s roles in the Knesset included Chair of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption, and the Diaspora. He sponsored laws to lower the cost of living and worked to promote the integration of immigrants into the job market as well as into the public health and education systems.

As Minister of Tourism, Razvozov spearheaded support packages for the tourism and hotel industries, and he pushed for the opening of direct flights to Israel from new destinations around the world once the country reopened its borders to tourists in 2022. He also served as a Chair of Joint Governmental Economic Committees with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Georgia and was responsible for promoting economic relations with these countries. Razvozov also served as Chair and Director of the Israel Olympic Committee from 2008 to 2013.

“From sports to politics, I have always looked out for the underdog, working to help those who otherwise might get lost in the system,” Razvozov said. “I very much look forward to continuing that work in this next chapter of my life, and I am grateful for the opportunity to serve on Joblio’s esteemed Board of Advisors.”

Added Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky: “Yoel deeply understands the vision and mission we have at Joblio, and he has unique personal and professional experiences to benefit our work in ethical and transparent international recruitment. We look forward to what will surely be a long and fruitful relationship with Yoel.”

Joblio, a preeminent leader in international recruiting, is on a mission to redefine the global labor market with a transparent, systematized, and humanized platform that is accessible to workers and employers around the world. As global labor shortages continue to put a strain on supply chains, more employers are looking internationally to add skilled, and talented workers to their organizations. Through its proprietary Applicant Concierge Experience (ACE) program, Joblio not only helps workers find foreign employment, but it also prepares them to acclimate to their new homes before they even leave their country. For more information, visit joblio.co.

Originally Posted: https://joblio.co/en/blog/yoel-razvozov-joins-joblio-inc-s-board-of-advisors/

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A golden moment for telehealth depends on meeting the need  for broadband

Imagine y­­­­­ou had $14 billion, but you couldn't give it away. The Federal Communication Commission has a similar problem with a key broadband grant program – but telehealth might help save the day. For better or worse, the internet is embedded into everything humans do, from educating our young to practicing medicine. Delivering telehealth is difficult without the internet. However, nearly 28 million U.S. households still lack internet access. The FCC established the Affordable Connectivity Program in December 2021 to provide access and subsidized computing devices. It's free to enroll in ACP, but many people are reluctant. Telehealth can win over fence-sitters. The universal need for healthcare can make ACP coupled with telehealth a win-win for everyone. Just about everybody gets sick, or they're responsible for someone who is sick. "More than half of Americans aged 50 and up are helping an older adult manage tasks ranging from household chores to care for medical conditions," according to University of Michigan's National Poll on Healthy Aging. The ACP provides discounts on broadband – up to $30 per month for eligible low-income households and up to $75 per month for qualifying tribal households – and a $100 subsidy for computing devices. While a White House press release indicates that 48 million households – nearly 40% of U.S. households – are eligible for ACP, according to the Federal Communications Commission, only 14.7 million households have subscribed as of early November. Terri English-Yancy is founder and CEO of Essential Families, a 501(c)(3) that offers "preventive" virtual essential programs to families near the poverty line in the Kansas City area. "Marketing the ACP program is 'mission critical' for me because all Essential Families' virtual preventative services, like the virtual home visiting and virtual mental telehealth require adequate and affordable broadband," said English-Yancy. "All our services are measured and reported in 'real time' to clients, providers, funders and donors. Most of the families in our targeted area will qualify for the ACP program, but most don't know about it."

ACP drives telehealth adoption in urban and rural communities

What can we expect if telehealth and ACP become widely available? Libraries reach out and touch virtually everyone in their communities across the entire economic spectrum. Before the pandemic quite a few libraries offered technology and creative partnerships with local businesses, community centers, etc. As libraries opened following the pandemic, some started exploring telehealth's impact. During the pandemic, Dianne Connery, the Pottsboro Library's director, received calls from patrons saying their doctors didn't want them coming to the office for appointments. She offered a room for video consultations with patrons' doctors. "People needed behavioral health, weight loss management and dermatology appointments," Connery said. Nick Martin, formerly with Delaware Libraries, explained, "We needed standalone spots where patrons could go to access these basic health and human services. Libraries added wheelchair-accessible kiosks that can hold two or three people, have HEPA filtration, UV sanitation and iPads that access several telehealth-specific platforms." Currently, the state's librarians are enrolling patrons into ACP.

Reimagining doctor's visits and chronic illness care

Telehealth enables communities to reinvent common urban settings for healthcare practices, including specialists' consults, medical observation, screenings and data gathering. They're increasing by recruiting barbershops, hair salons, churches and laundromats in African American neighborhoods where hypertension and diabetes screenings are delivered. The next step is to have customers, parishioners, patrons and others sign up for ACP and telehealth. Waverley Willis, owner of Urban Kutz Barbershops in Cleveland, noted that "barbers and hairdressers are part-time marriage counselors, psychiatrists, spiritual advisers and expert listeners." He occasionally sent customers from a haircut to the ER after testing them and finding their blood pressure levels were dangerously high. Telehealth and ACP can deliver similar chronic healthcare and home care services nationwide, just as some pioneering hospitals have done in providing telehealth for chronic illnesses. One Maryland hospital launched telehealth and broadband pilot programs in 2017, enrolling 105 patients with chronic conditions like heart failure, COPD, diabetes and hypertension. Through these programs, Frederick Memorial Hospital reduced readmissions by 75% and emergency room visits by 41%, which resulted in $2 million in cost savings.

Marketing up close and personal

One hold-up is that ACP target populations are not markets won with "flash 'n cash." If telehealth is to drive broadband adoption via ACP, communities need heavy doses of personal marketing and emphasis on the human element. Elizabeth Ramirez is the digital navigator handling ACP for ConnectWaukegan, which is the broadband initiative for this Illinois city. As a trusted guide, she assists community members in internet adoption, use of computing devices and, increasingly, basic telehealth skills. "CW mainly relies on person-to-person interactions, a lot on word of mouth, and 'marketing' through different community-based organizations," said Ramirez. "CBOs work with us to create workshops and sign-up events for their clients to learn about us and how to get enrolled in ACP. We also do a lot of outreach and promotion of ACP in partnership with a local Xfinity representative." Ramirez created seven phases for the ACP enrollment process. She keeps detailed track of time, resources and successes, and analyzes those who later drop out of the process after they start. While most of the process is simple, including getting the national verifier's sign-off, getting ISPs to add ACP to new or existing customers can be problematic. "If physicians promote ACP to their patients, there's a great advantage, especially those who face multiple barriers to getting to clinics, such as seniors, individuals without transportation, people with limited physical mobility or multiple children to take care of, etc." To effectively market and increase awareness and participation in ACP, the FCC last week announced the Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program with four categories. It's the agency's effort to show by other peoples' examples marketing strategies that work. Applications are due January 9, 2023. Saved from a stroke by telehealth, Craig Settles pays it forward by uniting community broadband teams and healthcare stakeholders through telehealth-broadband integration initiatives. Follow him on Twitter @cjsettles101. #golden #moment #telehealth #depends #meeting #broadband Read the full article

[prwizard]

Top 10 Most Influential Indian Personalities of the year 2022 announced by Fame Finders Media.

Fame Finders presents the names of the top 10 admiring personalities who've set themselves apart through their undeniable contributions to the world and people around them. They have what it takes to inspire and motivate others.

 These top 10 influential personalities are blooming in diverse industries through their intellectuality and unbeatable excellence. Here are the names below:

  1. Dr. AMIT DUA

 Dr. Amit Dua is currently working as an Assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of BITS Pilani, Pilani, where he has been teaching for over six years. Dr. Amit is the Honorary Adjunct Distinguished Scientist-Professor and Head of the Blockchain Branch (India) at SIRG. As an educator, he has trained over 6000 students.  He is the founder and CEO of Yushu Excellence Technologies Private Limited. Amit’s book on Blockchain Technology and Applications is highly acclaimed amongst academia and research.

 Dr. Amit is the co-author of the Amazon national best-selling books on "Machine Learning" and "Cybercrime and Cyber Hygiene". He has published over 50 international publications and filed Indian patents and copyright for Blockchain innovation. Dr. Amit is a certified life coach and advanced Pranic healer. He is living to fulfill his mission to help 10 Million people realize their true potential.

  2. NITIN BABURAO PATIL

 Nitin Baburao Patil is a Motivational Speaker, Author, Writer, Social Activist, and the founder of Uttung Bharari Training Academy. He is an Academically Pharmacist with over 32 years of Pharmaceutical Experience.

 He has written various motivational articles for a prestigious Maharashtra Govt aided magazine UDYOJAK and has conducted The Power Of Positive Attitude Motivational sessions for several colleges including D Y Patil School of Pharmacy Nerul, Navi Mumbai, MKTBTS College of Pharmacy, Nashik, and many more.

 He has been honoured as chief guest at Konkan Gyanpeeth Rahul Dharkar  College of Pharmacy and Research Centre for the convocation ceremony 

 Through his NGO, Uttung Bharari Foundation, he has conducted various free health camps and works for the Empowerment of Students of Rural Areas by Conducting free sessions on personality development.

  3. NILIMA RAJESH KAMDAR

 Nilima Rajesh Kamdar started her career as a freelance HR professional in 1986. Carry forwarded her recruitment profession and in 2009 she founded Nilima Jobs. She worked for her dream from the scratch, building up resources, clientele, and a reputation in the industry.

 Global recruitment brand Nilima Jobs is a human capital solutions provider, as well as provides talent acquisition services to many corporate houses, listed companies renowned organizations within India and overseas. Now, she has authored the book “ Unlock your potential. 

 The founder has also focussed on problems faced by women employees while remote working. Women were given flexible working hours without pay cuts. Nilima Kamdar has been awarded the Women Achiever of India (2013) award in the employment sector by PEOPLE’s FOUNDATION and has been honored with Swaawlambika Samman Award on 7th March 2021 in New Delhi.

  4. PRAACHI NAGPAL

 She has completed her graduation from NIFT- where she specialized in celebrity and fashion styling after her course in fashion communication. She graduated with the prestigious most innovative graduation project award, and now she is pursuing her MBA in luxury management from IFA Paris. Praachi got into modeling and pageants at the age of 18 and has tried and worked for 7 years to finally become a miss India. As a type 1 diabetic, Praachi didn’t let her disability bring her down to achieve what she set her heart on. She has also been working with the WHO as an advocate to bring awareness in India about type 1 diabetes.

  5. Dr. OMKAR PRASAD BAIDYA

 Dr. Omkar Prasad Baidya, MBBS, MD, Ph.D., and a member of NYAS, SAGES, Epilepsy Foundation, USA, World Society Of Interdisciplinary Antiaging Medicine, and British Physiological Society, and European Atherosclerosis Society. He has received his accreditation from international universities, namely - Harvard Medical School, Yale University School Of Medicine, John-Hopkins University School Of Medicine, And Vanderbilt University, USA.

 He has written books on moral philosophy, universal ethics, human virtues, human morality, and beyond, and has also been honored with:

1. Dr. BR Ambedkar National Award

2. Dr BR Ambedkar International Award

3. Mahatma Gandhi Nobel Peace Award

4. Nelson Mandela Nobel Peace Award

5. Bharat Bhushan Award

6. Bharat Sree Award

7. Bharat Vibhusan Award

8. Asia Peace Prize

9. Gandhi Mandela Award

10. Rashtriya Ekata Award

11. Jagadish Chandra National Talent Search Exam Encouragement Award-2002

12. Mathematical State Olympiad Award

13. National Physics Olympiad 2003 State Topper

14. Visharad In Tabla Instrumentation

15. Iap Medical Quiz Topper, Rims 2007, And Many More

  6. ANOOPAMA MUKERJEE LOHANA

 "We, as a collective, have traveled far, outward, long enough. It is time to go deep, within!", says Anoopama Mukerjee Lohana, to a world rearranging its priorities, after the pandemic!

 15 years of successful media life, transitioned into her true calling to facilitate Body, Mind, and Spirit wellbeing, for a balanced, abundant life. Her mission is to DEMYSTIFY & NORMALISE SPIRITUALITY,  ANCIENT WISDOM, and HOLISTIC HEALING for the modern urban.

 A certified Sound Energy Alchemist, CrystalSonic Therapist,  Kriyā Meditation Mentor,  Anoopama has trained, mentored, and shared her practices with individuals, groups, and corporates, for over two decades. She is an expert curator and facilitator of Experiential WellBeing through Retreats, Workshops, Festivals, and Programs that offer all levels of Yoga, Sound Healing, Kriya, Meditation, Forestbaths, Earth Commune, art, movement, music, and local, cultural experiences.

She now heads the Experiential Wellness business pillar with Baidyanath Life Sciences - the Wellness Industry's first, Integrated, Holistic Wellness Curation and Management Expertise.

It combines over 100 years of the brand's Ayurveda heritage with holistic practices and new-age science of ethical beauty, wellness, and wellbeing, to curate, execute and manage the Wellness Experience for  Hospitality, Real Estate, and Corporate institutions.

  7. SANGEETA KABRA

 Sangeeta Kabra is a life coach and always wanted to help people by providing a systematic methodical way to manage today’s stressful environment. Her purpose is to empower, help and motivate people to become their best. She finds holistic solutions by considering all possibilities carefully, asking the right question to bring hidden thoughts out from others,

 A life coach wishes to strike a perfect balance in life for people seeking help and that is what inspired her to initiate her brand ‘PerfectU’ and the social initiative ‘PerfectU Wellness & Research Center”.

 She is fully dedicated to eradicating issues concerning the health of an individual, society, and relationships. Through her Foundation, she provides education and employment opportunities to women and children.

  8. SATISH PATHAK

 Mr. Satish Pathak, a visionary entrepreneur founded Futurol Moteur Globale Private Ltd. in 2018. He graduated from NIT Silchar, PGDMM from NMIMS Mumbai, and Senior Business Leadership Diploma from IIM Bangalore. Having rich experience in Automotive Aftermarket in Parts, Lubes & Services with Automobile Stalwarts , Mr. Pathak brings a lot to the table & Value to a start-up Business.

Apart from India, Mr. Pathak has worked in different geographies across Globe, gaining invaluable experience as a Person & Professional.

 As he says “Success can only be achieved with hard work and consistency in your work”. His passion has already bagged a few awards for FMGPL in a short span of time, including “Top Ten Lubricant Manufacturer of 2021” by Industry Outlook.

 “The Global Choice Awards 2021” and “Indian Achiever’s Award for Emerging Company” to name a few.

Futurol Moteur Globale is the Manufacturer, Exporter & Marketer of a complete range of Automotive Brakes, Clutches, Lubricants, Greases & Filters. Recently, the company signed a contract with Umran Malik, Fastest Indian Bowler, for Brand endorsement.

  9. VIREN C. DAYAL

 Viren C. Dayal is an LSC-certified trainer, in Customs Law applied  Rules and Regulations. He is a commercially focused manager and business director with over 35 years of experience ranging from multinational corporations to closely-held partnership firms. 

 Possesses deep expertise in the fields of international import/export, clearing, forwarding, transportation, shipping, customs laws, tax, world trade (WTO), and dealing with varied sectors such as chemicals, textiles, engineering goods, polypropylene, etc.

 He is passionate about teaching and developing young minds in order to make them reach their full potential. He has also been awarded citations by Brihan Mumbai Customs Broker Association for imparting knowledge and training to the fraternity and also successfully handling the general elections for 20 years.

  10. Dr. MONICA NAGPAL

 Dr. Monica Nagpal is a Ph.D. in education and a certified meditation and Mindfulness coach. She is a founder of HopeandHappiiness and also a parent advisor. She uses mindfulness, Hypnotherapy, and NLP tools to enable women and children to bring out their inherent potential for excellence. She helps parents renew their connection with their children and thus have a harmonious family. 

 She is also an inner image consultant enabling women to recognize their true selves. Based on her experience as a Buddhism practitioner, she helps to find the root cause of your problem before finding the solution.

 She advocates value-based education methodology and integrates mindfulness and meditation and uses them as tools for bringing transformation in individuals. She envisions creating a world in which all living beings can coexist in harmony and flourish eternally.

 This campaign has been managed by Fame Finders. Many more campaigns are yet to be executed in the coming months. Stay tuned for timely updates about further campaigns. Visit us at  https://famefinders.in/ or contact us at +91 9718750379 or manoj@famefinders.in or https://www.facebook.com/top10achievers. 

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NHM UP Recruitment 2021 : National Health Mission (NHM), Uttar Pradesh has published a notification for the post of Community Health Officers (CHOs). The Notification number is 2021-22/1722 publish on 08 July 2021. The following application is for the recruitment of Community Health Officers (CHOs) by National Health Mission (NHM). Here, you will get the complete information about Community Health Officers, like education qualification, application fees, important dates, age limit, total vacancies, pay scale, application procedure, and important website links. The candidates applying for the post must be fulfilled the Eligibility criteria. Eligible candidates can potentially apply for the post by visiting Official website which link we have mentioned below in job description. The last date to apply for the CHO is 17th August 2021. We advise candidates to kindly go through the official notification and the eligibility criteria before submitting the application form. The links to the official website of National Health Mission (NHM) and official notification are given below.

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தமிழக அரசில் Nurse & Health Inspector பணிகள் -nhm recruitment 2021-22

தமிழக அரசில் Nurse & Health Inspector பணிகள் -nhm recruitment 2021-22

தமிழக அரசின் மருத்துவம் மற்றும் மக்கள் நல்வாழ்வுத் துறையில் (nhm recruitment) கீழ் செயல்பட்டு வரும் துணை சுகாதார மையங்களில் காலியாக ���ள்ள 7296 காலியிடங்களை நிரப்ப தகுதியானவர்களிடமிருந்து விண்ணப்பங்கள் வரவேற்கப்படுகின்றன. இது குறித்த விபரங்கள் வருமாறு. nhm recruitment 1. பணியின் பெயர் : இடைநிலை சுகாதார பணியாளர் (Midlevel Healthcare Provider) காலியிடங்கள் : 4848 (மாவட்ட வாரியாக ஏற்பட்டுள்ள காலியிட…

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NHM Gujarat Recruitment 2021 for Officer & Administrator

NHM Gujarat Recruitment 2021 for Officer & Administrator

NHM Gujarat Recruitment 2021 :  National Health Mission (NHM) Gujarat has published Recruitment Notification for Officer & Administrator Posts 2021.Interested & Eligible Candidates may Apply Online on Official Website i.e https://arogyasathi.gujarat.gov.in 02/11/2021 You can find NHM Gujarat Jobs 2021 other details like age limit, educational qualification, selection process, application fee, and…

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NHM UP Recruitment 2021

NHM UP Recruitment 2021

National Health Mission Recruitment 2021 : For 797 CHO Posts NHM UP Recruitment 2021 : National Health Mission (NHM), Uttar Pradesh has published a notification for the post of Community Health Officers (CHOs). The Notification number is 2021-22/1722 publish on 08 July 2021. The following application is for the recruitment of Community Health Officers (CHOs) by National Health Mission (NHM).…

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Sarkari Naukri 2021: इन 3 हजार से ज्यादा नौकरियों के लिए आवेदन में बचा है बस एक दिन, जल्द करें

Sarkari Naukri 2021: इन 3 हजार से ज्यादा नौकरियों के लिए आवेदन में बचा है बस एक दिन, जल्द करें

अगर आप सामुदायिक स्वास्थ्य अधिकारियों के पदों की नौकरियां खोज रहे हैं, तो आपके लिए अच्छा अवसर है। राष्ट्रीय स्वास्थ्य मिशन, मध्य प्रदेश ने कम्युनिटी हेल्थ ऑफिसर्स पदों की बंपर रिक्तियां निकाली हैं, जिनके लिए आवेदन में बस एक दिन बचा है। ऐसे में अगर आपने अभी तक इन पदों के लिए आवेदन नहीं किया है, तो फौरन आधिकारिक वेबसाइट के जरिए ऑनलाइन आवेदन कर लें। इसे भी पढ़ें- सरकारी नौकरियों की लाइव खबर…

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Update 9/20/2021 - 4:45 pm:  Additional information regarding the Isolation and Quarantine facility has been included.

Important Note: As stated in Governor’s Proclamation 21-14, all employees engaging in work for the Department of Health are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to your hire date. Proof of vaccination will be verified by the Office of Human Resources after an employment offer has been extended and accepted. Please reach out to the Office of Human Resources at HR@doh.wa.gov if you need information on a medical or religious accommodation.

Apply early!  Application review will be ongoing.  Initial review begins September 21, 2021. This recruitment is open and continuous. The hiring authority reserves the right to make a hiring decision and/or to close the recruitment at any time.

The mission of the Department of Health (DOH) is to protect and improve the health of people in Washington. The division of Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) ensures the agency and its local health, tribal, and medical partners are better prepared to respond to and recover from public health emergencies, major disasters, and terrorist activities that affect the health of the people of Washington State. The Isolation and Quarantine (I&Q) Section works to decompress hospitals by supporting local and state isolation and quarantine, Alternate Care Facility (ACF), and patient transport (EMS) by partnering with local governments (Tribes, Counties, Cities) and communities, state agencies, and other entities in the event of an emergency. People who test positive for COVID-19 or who are exposed to someone who tests positive are asked to isolate or quarantine (I & Q) away from other people for 10 to 14 days in order to reduce risk of transmitting the virus to others. Most people are able to isolate or quarantine in their own homes. In Washington State, providing for I & Q is the responsibility of local jurisdictions. The state Isolation and Quarantine facility was created for individuals who are not Washington residents but are traveling in our state and test positive for COVID-19 or who have been exposed to someone who tests positive and do not have a residence or other location in which to spend their 10-14 day isolation or quarantine period. Our state facility operates from within a motel in Lewis County.  Our team provide a number of different services for our guests. Team members provide transportation to and from the facility in vans that have been altered to separate air flow to protect the driver. There is a nurse on staff who checks guest vitals multiple times per day to ensure that guests whose condition worsens get timely transport to a medical facility for care. Another team member will accompany the nurse on their rounds and take notes for the nurse. Team members provide for all aspects of the guest’s stay to include providing laundry services, delivering hygiene products, delivering ready-made foods or microwaveable foods to the guests. Team members also answer phones, check inventory and keep track of supplies needed to safely operate the facility. Team members receive training in fit and use of personal protection equipment (PPE).  In addition, team members may be asked to provide technical assistance to local health jurisdictions or tribal nations on facility operation and performance.

Learn more about Isolation and Quarantine for COVID-19

Under the direction of the Team Lead, these Program Specialist 2 (PS 2) positions are responsible for participating in program planning and evaluation of health service delivery products and identifying needs for personnel, supplies, and activities to support community and state response activities. These positions implement policies and procedures that guide the work of the team.

This recruitment will be used to fill three (3) non-permanent full-time Program Specialist 2 positions located within the Division of Emergency Preparedness & Response.  These Program Specialist 2 positions are anticipated to last twelve (12) months from date of hire.

The duty station for this position is in Centralia, WA at our State Isolation and Quarantine Facility. The facility is staffed 24 hours per day and 7 days per week. Staff may work any or all of the three shifts and may work overtime as needed to ensure adequate staffing of the facility.

On 11/2/21 this job listing was closed due to the positions being filled.

WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE! NIGHT IS COMING AND THE DAY IS FAR SPENT!

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Inside DC’s Secret Covid Morgue

Written by Luke Mullins

April 21, 2020—The clerics have been sworn to secrecy. On this warm morning, they’ve come to a vast and empty parking lot, instructed not to tell anyone of its location. The pitch of asphalt is unusually secure, hidden behind a 12-foot chain-link fence that’s been swathed in sheets of black tarp to prevent anyone from peering through. At the front gate, armed soldiers stand guard.

Inside, large trailers are arranged behind tented canopies and banks of lights. Metal ramps are affixed to each trailer so that stretchers can be wheeled in. The interior walls of the trailers are lined with seven rows of metallic shelving, sturdy enough to support thousands of pounds. The temperature is 24 degrees.

The clergymen gather with a handful of city officials in front of the canopies. They form a circle, each six feet apart from the next.

Reverend Andre Towner of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ.

Imam Talib Shareef of Nation’s Mosque.

Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom–The National Synagogue.

Dr. Donell Harvin, a top official at DC’s homeland-security department.

Kimberly Lassiter, a supervisor at the medical examiner’s office.

And Dr. Roger Mitchell, the chief medical examiner himself.

Wearing masks and rubber gloves, they bow their heads. Tomorrow, the first body will be sent here. Today, a blessing.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

One by one, the clerics offer prayers, solemn exhortations for strength and humility, courage and dignity, resonating above the grinding hum of the trailers. Imam Shareef invokes the victims—“Their deaths,” he says, “are not to be in vain.” Reverend Towner prays for the workers, that their bodies will be protected from the virus, that their minds stay healthy during the difficult days ahead. Rabbi Herzfeld stresses the righteousness of the mission. “In Judaism,” he tells the group, “we believe that the greatest kindness is to care for the dead.”

***

It’s an ominous time in the nation’s capital. Several miles away, federal officials are dismissing warnings about the deadly airborne pathogen that has exploded out of Asia. Their unwillingness to act has impelled local governments across the country to launch their own scattered efforts to prevent Covid-19 from decimating their communities. In the District of Columbia, where African Americans make up 46 percent of the population, the task is especially urgent, given the virus’s disproportionately cruel impact on people of color.

Over the previous month, the city has been locked down as panicked residents watch their leaders navigate a 100-year crisis in real time. Mayor Muriel Bowser shuttered businesses. The DC Council pushed through legislation to extend unemployment benefits. Health-department officials opened testing sites and implored residents to wear masks and keep their distance. But away from public view, a weightier matter has come to preoccupy a little-known but essential corner of the bureaucracy: the caretakers of the dead.

“There’s not going to be a parade for you guys. You’re not going to get discounts or big thank-you signs. The work we do, we do in silence.”

It’s a problem of space. As Drs. Mitchell and Harvin prepared for the pandemic, they realized that the city’s morgue didn’t have the capacity to handle the surge of fatalities that the virus would leave behind. And so, over the previous few weeks, they hustled to secure the land, equipment, and manpower necessary to build an additional facility.

The clergy who led prayers on the day the field morgue opened were there to make sure the space didn’t violate the tenets of their three distinct faiths, and to consecrate the site as one. Then the work began. Over the next two and a half months, Harvin, who describes himself as the “general in charge of the death troops,” and his top deputy, Lassiter, who has recovered bodies throughout DC for more than two decades, will oversee the makeshift mortuary. By the time the spring surge is through, 404 Covid victims will have passed through the site.

Still, through it all, almost no one in the city will have any idea the Covid morgue exists. The work is carried out in strict secrecy; staffers are instructed not to disclose the site’s location or tell anyone what takes place there, not even their own family members. A mistake—such as a body being released to the wrong family—would be humiliating for the mayor and the city. News footage of workers moving the dead could upset victims’ families, opening new wounds, or lure gawkers to the site. As much as anything else, though, the silence reflects the professional ethos of those who perform this work for a living. While they’re dispatched to every hurricane and school shooting, their efforts take place entirely behind the scenes. They are the first responders you never see.

The District of Columbua invited an imam, a rabbi, and a minister to consecrate the morgue.

***

“There’s not going to be a parade for you guys,” Harvin tells each new set of workers to arrive at the Covid morgue. “You’re not going to get discounts or big [thank-you] signs. The work we do, we do in silence. Not even the family members of the victims will know what we do. There’s a pride in that. There’s a silent pride in that,” he says. “You’re taking care of someone’s grandmother, grandfather, husband, daughter, son, and that’s a higher calling.” When it’s all over, they’ll return to their previous jobs or assignments and no one will ever know what they’ve done here. “It’s a heavy burden,” Harvin says. “It’s a very heavy burden.

“[But] the world is watching,” he assures them, “whether they see us or not.”

***

Donell Harvin is 48 years old, with a sturdy build and flecks of gray in his goatee. He’s married to a physician and has four daughters. He lives in Howard County and spends most of the year looking forward to his annual scuba-diving trip.

Over the last 30 years, Harvin has been an eyewitness to some of America’s darkest moments. As an EMT, he responded to the World Trade Center when it was bombed in 1993; after joining the New York Fire Department, he was there when the towers were destroyed in 2001. As a deputy director in New York’s medical examiner’s office, he led the effort to identify victims of Hurricane Sandy. And in 2012, at the request of Connecticut officials, Harvin assisted with forensics after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary.

His path from first responder to frontline bureaucrat began in the Bronx, where he spent his teenage years. After dropping out of high school, he got a GED and then a college scholarship from the Children’s Aid Society, enlisting as a paramedic. Though he loved the work, as a young father he began to worry about his safety. He was caught in shootouts while tending to accident victims and lost colleagues in ambulance crashes. On 9/11, his wife and daughters saw him on TV, racing away from the rubble, and then didn’t hear from him for 24 hours. Upon seeing their faces when he finally got home, he knew it was time for a change.

Harvin went back to school and earned a master’s in emergency management. Landing a position with New York’s chief medical examiner, he became an expert in mass-fatality management—the grim business of identifying and processing victims of large-scale tragedies. He also came to know Mitchell, and the two worked together on Sandy Hook. Two years later, when Mitchell was hired as DC’s chief medical examiner, he recruited Harvin.

Donell Harvin, who was at Ground Zero on 9/11, helped devise DC’s Covid death-handling protocols.

***

Their immediate task in the District was to turn around an office plagued by mismanagement. But an equally important project loomed. The previous year, Washington had been shaken by tragedy when a mentally disturbed government contractor gunned down 12 people at the Navy Yard. Although the medical examiner’s office had properly managed those deaths, officials realized that a larger or more complex disaster would have overwhelmed its capabilities. The city needed a mass-fatality division robust enough to absorb the kind of tragedy that Harvin and Mitchell hoped Washington would never face. They went about building it—securing federal funds, adding staff, and running mass-casualty drills.

By early 2020, Harvin had been in Washington six years. He’d since left Mitchell’s office and finished a PhD in public health. He was teaching at Georgetown and had become chief of homeland security and intelligence at DC’s homeland-security agency. But the imminent arrival of Covid meant the District was facing the catastrophe he and Mitchell had trained for, the biggest mass-fatality event in the city’s history.

On March 2, Harvin went to DC’s Emergency Operations Center for the first day of formal briefings about how the city would navigate the pandemic. Halfway through the morning, he found a quiet spot in the hallway and placed a call to his mother. “This is going to be bad,” he said.

***

The city morgue is located at 401 E Street, Southwest. In any given year, only a fraction of the fatalities that occur in DC pass through the facility. When a person dies of natural causes at a hospital, nursing home, or hospice, a physician will typically sign the death certificate and release the body to a funeral home. It’s usually only those who die alone or in unnatural or suspicious circumstances whose bodies go to the morgue, where medical examiners determine the cause and manner of their death.

Initially, Harvin and Mitchell planned to use this same approach for the pandemic, relying on hospitals—where the bulk of virus-related deaths would take place—to serve as de facto Covid morgues. But they quickly revised their thinking. For one thing, little was known about how contagious the disease might be postmortem. Would storing victims at hospitals risk infecting staff? At the same time, Harvin learned from former colleagues in New York—which was being ravaged by the virus—that hospitals were too overwhelmed to manage the bodies properly. The result was an appalling spectacle: forklifts carrying pallet-loads of bodies outside hospitals, decedents stacked on top of one another in trailers. At one point, police discovered nearly 100 rotting corpses in unrefrigerated U-Hauls parked by a Brooklyn funeral home. As the funeral home’s owner told the New York Times, “I ran out of space.”

The city handles the body of every Covid fatality, a process meant to ensure victims don’t pile up at overwhelmed hospitals, as in New York. Above, an autopsy room and viewing area at the city morgue.

***

The truth is that all mass-fatality events carry the potential for this type of disgrace. Amid the chaos of a calamity, victims get misidentified. Morgues fill up. “We saw that with Hurricane Katrina—bodies just left out there,” Harvin says. “And that’s a stain on our society.”

So Harvin and Mitchell made a decision that would set them apart from most coroners and medical examiners in the country. Instead of depending on the hospital system, the chief medical examiner’s office would assume responsibility. Every single person who dies of Covid in DC would be sent to Harvin and Mitchell’s team—a protocol that remains in place today.

By studying the mortality rate and projecting infection levels for the city, the men estimated that as many as 3,500 residents could perish in the pandemic. Or one in every 200. Putting aside the magnitude of the suffering, the math presented a serious logistical problem: The city morgue had an official capacity of only 205. The solution was apparent—they would have to build the Covid morgue.

Harvin immediately began acquiring the materials he’d need. He ordered six refrigerated trailers. He borrowed mobile light towers for nighttime work and generators for power. He acquired PPE, Porta-Potties, drinking water, 500 gallons of hand sanitizer, and heavy-duty body bags specially designed for mass tragedies, 4,000 in all. For families who couldn’t afford funerals, the District agreed to pay for cremations. And to prevent a backlog of fatalities, the city shortened the time it would hold unclaimed bodies before they could be cremated, from 30 to 15 days.

The truth is that all mass-fatality events carry the potential for disgrace. Amid the chaos of a calamity, victims get misidentified. Morgues fill up.

Meanwhile, Harvin combed the local and federal bureaucracy in search of an additional 30 workers—to volunteer. The Army agreed to detail members of its mortuary-affairs unit, which had operated similar morgues in combat zones. A trade association found out-of-state funeral directors who wanted to pitch in. DC’s Medical Reserve Corps, a group of volunteers willing to assist in health-related emergencies, provided workers. The DC Guard and the Air National Guard sent personnel.

As he rushed to get things in place, the virus was already spreading through Washington. Harvin felt the same sense of foreboding he’d experienced six years earlier when he was waiting for Hurricane Sandy to make landfall. “It’s like a slow-moving train,” he says. “You know it’s coming and you can’t stop it.”

***

While Harvin was acquiring equipment and manpower, his top lieutenant, Kim Lassiter, spent two days driving around the District, scouting possible sites for the morgue. At her last stop, she got out of her car and peered through the fence. The property had everything. It was city-owned land—a parking lot for DC employees, empty because staffers were now working from home. It was large enough for the trailers, and it could be secured with tarps and guards. Most important, the site was inconspicuous: You could drive right past it and not realize it was there. “This is perfect,” Lassiter thought.

Lassiter, a 54-year-old grandmother with a soft smile, is the second-longest-tenured medical examiner’s employee, with nearly a quarter century on the job. In the 1990s, she lifted the victims of gang wars off street corners and washed the blood from their wounds at the morgue. In 2002, she used x-rays to identify the remains of Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old intern whose murder had become the subject of national fascination when it was alleged she’d been dating a married congressman around the time of her disappearance. And in 2008, Lassiter carried the remains of four children—ages 5, 6, 11, and 17—from the house where they’d been decomposing for seven months, after their mother, Banita Jacks, became convinced they’d been possessed by demons and killed them.

Lassiter came to the work by way of her own personal tragedy. She grew up in a housing project in Prince George’s County, with five brothers and sisters. Her father wasn’t around, and her mother, who worked in healthcare, struggled to do it all on her own. She eventually fell victim to drug use. It was up to Lassiter—the eldest of the children—to run the household. She cut class three days a week to watch her siblings. At 12, she got a summer job to support the family. Even after she graduated from high school and entered the workforce, there were periods when she would drop everything to nurse her mother through the various chemical fogs and illnesses that encumber the life of an addict.

In 1987, when Lassiter was 21, her mother passed away. Lassiter was called to the hospital. A nurse escorted her to the elevator, and they rode down to the basement. There, in a frigid room, Lassiter found her mother lying motionless on a stretcher. Her eyes were still open. “I felt like,” Lassiter remembers, “she was waiting for me to show up.”

Kim Lassiter, a 25-year veteran of the medical examiner’s office, ran the Covid morgue day to day.

***

The nurse explained that her mother was being taken away for an autopsy. Lassiter didn’t know anything about the process, and the news frightened her. “If I could have gone with her through that,” she says, “I would have.”

Following the funeral, Lassiter obtained custody of her siblings, whom she supported through her job as a clerk at the US Department of Health and Human Services. A few years later, her life took an unexpected turn when she spotted an alarming story in the newspaper: The DC chief medical examiner’s office had released the wrong body to a grieving family. The incident sounded both outrageous and intriguing; more than anything, it reminded Lassiter—by then a mother herself—of when her mom had been sent to the morgue. She called the office, talked her way to a supervisor, and asked if she could help. She joined the office as a volunteer.

This was the late 1990s, and the agency was considerably smaller than it is today. Lassiter was quickly hired and eventually promoted, becoming one of seven technicians responsible for a full sweep of duties: fielding intake calls from police, snapping photographs at death scenes, transporting decedents to the morgue, and assisting with medical examinations and autopsies. She viewed the work not as some macabre responsibility but as an expression of love. While she hadn’t been able to care for her own mother after her death, she now looked after the deceased loved ones of others.

When arriving at a place of death, Lassiter is vigilant about wearing a blank facial expression, to acknowledge the gravity of the circumstances. She offers condolences, then completes her tasks—attaching the toe tag, placing the deceased into the body bag—at a diligent pace so as not to prolong the trauma of those looking on. Once an autopsy is complete, she uses tight, neat sutures to close the incisions. She then washes the stains from the body and wraps it in a crisp white sheet.

Occasionally, when working alone, Lassiter has found herself speaking out loud to the bodies. If she hits a pothole while driving someone to the morgue, she’ll apologize. I’m sorry. Upon entering the morgue’s cold-storage facility, she sometimes greets the people being kept there. Good morning. When examining a crime victim’s body—particularly when it’s a child’s—she often pledges to help get justice. I’ll do everything in my power to find the evidence needed to make whoever did this to you pay.

The hardest days are the ones when she finds herself face to face with someone she knows. One morning, as Lassiter was preparing for autopsies, she checked the manifest and saw a familiar name. It was an older woman, a friend of her mother’s who’d looked out for Lassiter as a child. She walked into the cold-storage room, slid the body out of its cabinet, and said goodbye. It was the only time she ever broke down crying at the morgue.

***

April 22, 2020—The day after the religious leaders consecrate the site, the Covid morgue begins to stir with workers in face shields, gloves, and white protective suits. It’s been six weeks since DC recorded its first case of Covid, and the death toll has exceeded the city morgue’s capacity. Now the first wave of bodies is arriving.

The process begins with a phone call. A hospital official, or sometimes a police officer, contacts the medical examiner’s office. Lassiter, who is chief of the transport unit, dispatches her team to the scene. Two workers, in full PPE, arrive in a black, unmarked van. They present paperwork for the physician’s signature. In the hospital’s morgue, they take custody of the body. Opening the body bag, they attach identification. They zip the bag closed and spray the outside with disinfectant, then place it into a second, heavy-duty body bag. They disinfect it again. The workers lift the decedent onto a stretcher and paste an identification tag onto the bag. They slide the stretcher into the back of the unmarked van.

Every body arriving at the Covid morgue is first accounted for at the intake tent, then transferred to a refrigerated trailer.

***

At the Covid morgue, the workers move the decedent onto a table in the intake tent. Here, they weigh the body, to help confirm identification, and enter the victim’s name into a computer. They wheel the decedent across the blacktop and up into one of the refrigerated trailers. Next, the transfer. If the victim is heavy, the workers—at least two, sometimes four—lift the body onto one of the lower shelves. If the person is light, they place the body on a higher shelf. The staff use internal coding—6D, 2A—to record the exact location. They exit the trailer, remove their protective suits, and put on fresh ones.

A victim typically remains at the Covid morgue a few days, rarely longer than a week. During that time, a separate team calls family members to help them through the paperwork. Once burial arrangements are made, the funeral director schedules a pickup. The workers wheel the victim out of cold storage and into a second tented canopy—the release tent. They again wipe down the outside of the body bag. They again spray it with disinfectant. The funeral director pulls up. They load the dead into the hearse.

***

Though it was difficult to find volunteers, Harvin had assembled what he called “a coalition of the willing.” The active-duty Army morticians and military reservists, the citizen volunteers, the funeral directors, along with medical-examiner staffers and UDC students. While many had backgrounds in mortuary services, others did not. “We had people,” Harvin says, “who had never touched a dead body before—never seen a dead body.”

When each new group of volunteers arrived, Harvin—“the general in charge of the death troops”—brought them together to discuss the effort. The victims had come to the Covid morgue after suffering lonely and terrifying deaths—hooked up to breathing tubes, surrounded by masked doctors and nurses. “These people often were dropped off at the hospital, and they couldn’t see their loved ones for two or three or four weeks,” he continued. “They expired around complete strangers.” The staff’s goal, Harvin told the troops, was to provide each person with a dignity in death that they didn’t experience during their last days of life.

The operation has depended on volunteers—students, funeral directors, military reservists with no prior training.

***

Then he turned it over to Lassiter, who ran the day-to-day operations. She instructed new volunteers how to implement the values Harvin had espoused. When carrying the deceased, move deliberately and with caution. Keep the body as horizontal as possible. Do not, under any circumstances, stack one on top of another. Check, double-check, and triple-check the manifest to make sure each victim is in the correct rack. And pay respect through your words. Lassiter never refers to the deceased as “corpses” or “cadavers” or “cases.” Instead, she calls them “my people.”

“That’s the only way I can get [the workers] to treat them the way they would treat someone that they love,” Lassiter says. “Because it makes them see how special these people are to me.”

***

Gerald Slater, 86, was a television executive at PBS and WETA.

Richard Paul Thornell, 83, was a Howard law-school professor who helped establish the Peace Corps’s first-ever program, in Ghana.

Jose Mardoqueo Reyes, 54, was a refugee of El Salvador’s civil war and a beloved internet-radio broadcaster.

Luevella Jackson, 87, was among the first female bus drivers in DC’s public-school system.

Samuel Shumaker III, 90, was an Army colonel who also taught English and creative writing at UDC.

Florence Gilkes, 97, was a loving wife and aunt, as well as a dedicated fan of the Washington Football Team.

Iraj Askarinam, 76, owned a restaurant in Adams Morgan, where he regularly provided free meals to the homeless. They called him “Mr. Spaghetti.”

***

By May, the pandemic’s bleakest days had arrived at the morgue. The daily influx of new decedents fluctuated—eight one day, 19 the next. As the volume swelled, the workers came face to face with the breadth of the city’s suffering. They began recognizing the last names of victims they’d been dispatched to retrieve, and it dawned on them that these were additional members of already devastated families. Payton McFadden, a UDC premed grad, describes the crushing duty of traveling to a DC hospital to collect the body of a Covid-positive baby: “We had went and gotten one of the [baby’s] family members one week prior. [Covid] was slowly but surely matriculating through the whole house.” In a searing example of the District’s racial inequality, 74 percent of the fatalities were Black. “I will never forget this as long as I live, ever,” Lassiter says. “It just took so many people at one time, so suddenly.”

A Chicago-area funeral director who asked to be identified only by her first name, Stacey, came to Washington to volunteer. She served in the medical examiner’s main office, calling families and guiding them through the process of finalizing death certificates and retrieving loved ones. On one occasion, she spoke with a man whose father was in the Covid morgue, and he dissolved into tears. The man explained that they’d been estranged for years. It was only recently that they’d finally begun speaking again. “We do help carry that burden of grief,” she says. “And it’s hard.” On another day, she had a series of conversations with a police officer whose mother was at the disaster morgue. When the officer suddenly stopped returning her calls, Stacey got hold of his wife, who told her he’d been hospitalized with Covid himself. Nearly a year later, she still wonders about him. “It is always in the back of my head,” she says. “I don’t know [if] he made it through.”

Routine tasks touched off bouts of anguish. A worker might spot a detail about a victim that resonated personally: a birthday shared with the worker’s daughter, the same last name as a best friend.

As the morgue’s lead official, Harvin was spending up to 12 hours a day at the site. “Everyone’s talking about Covid and fatalities, and it’s just numbers to them. We’re actually dealing with them,” he says. “I have a PhD and I’m in there putting on gloves and a [protective] suit and I’m helping the crews move bodies in and out of trailers. It’s visceral for us.”

The staff feared for their own safety. “The scariest thing was [potentially being] exposed ourselves,” says Denise Lyles, supervisor of the investigation unit. Lassiter grew terrified that she’d infect her family. “I have a husband that goes out and he works. I was concerned about him,” she says. “Grandchildren that are asthmatic, concerned about them.”

Routine tasks touched off bouts of anguish. While checking the manifest, a worker might spot a detail about a victim that resonated personally: a birthday shared with the worker’s daughter, the same last name as a best friend. Harvin and Lassiter did what they could to look out for their staff’s mental health. At the end of each day, Lassiter pulled people aside to see if anyone was experiencing symptoms of anxiety or depression, connecting them with counselors or chaplains. Over time, even veterans of the medical examiner’s office began struggling with the weight of their mission.

After several weeks at the site, Harvin found that when he returned home from work, he would drift into a haze. He had no appetite. He stopped engaging his wife in conversation. He passed entire evenings staring blankly into the television. “I don’t even know what I’m watching,” he recalls. “I had no motivation.”

Harvin, of course, had worked mass tragedy before. After hijackers flew the first plane into the World Trade Center, he approached the South Tower on foot. From two blocks away, he saw bodies falling from the sky and his entire body froze. He couldn’t take another step forward. Minutes later, there was a deafening sound and the tower disappeared into a cloud of gray debris. Out of the rubble came a speeding ambulance. Harvin jumped into the back along with dozens of other firefighters and cops. As they neared the North Tower, Harvin turned to one of them. “Doesn’t it look like this one’s leaning?” he said.

He spent the next two days at Ground Zero searching for survivors and recovering the dead. The experience was so traumatizing that he vowed never to return to the site. But he found the work at the Covid morgue even more emotionally taxing. “I survived September 11,” he says. “I didn’t know if I was going to survive this.”

“There were so many women. So many mothers there.”

While he was able to walk away from Ground Zero after the attack,the pandemic was taking new victims each day. Every time Harvin arrived at the Covid morgue, he confronted a fresh supply of misery, and there was no end in sight. “Your mind and your soul get worn down far long before you body [does],” he says. Recognizing that he was experiencing depression, he turned to colleagues at the homeland-security department and found solace in chatting with them virtually.

For Lassiter, the pain manifested not as psychological trauma but as profound sadness. The heartache was always there, growing more intense over time. May 9—Mother’s Day—was the hardest. It had always been a tough one, the day her own mother’s death was most painful. But there was an additional heaviness now; she couldn’t stop thinking about everyone at the Covid morgue. “There were so many women,” she says. “So many mothers there.”

Though she was scheduled to be off, Lassiter didn’t feel right staying home on that particular day. She left her house in Prince George’s County and made the 25-minute drive to the site. Arriving at the morgue, she put on a protective suit and greeted the workers. “What are you doing here?” they asked. “It’s Mother’s Day,”

“I know,” she replied, “but I came down because I wanted to really thank you for what you’re doing.” She understood that some of them were mothers themselves, and she appreciated them for spending the day at the site.

Lassiter walked over to the cold-storage trailers and turned to face her people. “Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms,” she said. As she returned to the car, she noticed a lightness of spirit.

“It felt kind of like a sign of relief,” she says. “Just to speak out. To let them know that someone cares.”

***

June 2020—As summer approaches, the pace at the Covid morgue begins to slow. Fewer victims are arriving; the number of bodies in the trailers is declining. By the end of the month, the volume is thin enough that it can be handled at the city morgue. Washington’s first wave of Covid has reached its conclusion.

It’s time for Harvin to shut down the disaster morgue, at least for now. But before doing so, he organizes a final ritual. On July 7, 2020, Rabbi Herzfeld, Reverend Towner, and Imam Shareef return to the site. They were present at the beginning, and Harvin wants them here today, too.

The faith leaders gather by the intake tent as a group of three dozen workers form concentric circles around them. They offer prayers of thanksgiving that the work is coming to an end. “It is at death that the earth receives its treasures,” says Imam Shareef. “And we want to honor the facility that now has allowed for individuals to be returned back to the earth.”

After the ceremony, Lassiter assembles the men and women on her team to thank them for their two and a half months of service. When she finishes, a soldier who was assigned to the site pulls a patch off his flak jacket and approaches her. “This patch has been around the world,” he tells Lassiter, “and I want you to have it.”

Though the pandemic rages on, Harvin and Lassiter can’t help but feel a certain triumph. They haven’t misidentified any bodies. None of their team has contracted Covid. They know they may be back. But in a dark and painful year, this is a good day.

Months later, Lassiter will remember it, the special pride she felt that despite dozens of workers toiling and thousands of pounds of equipment rumbling, despite 404 fatalities passing through, word of the Covid morgue never reached the public. Her colleagues hadn’t enlisted for accolades. They’d pressed through the fear and the grief in order to care for the innocent victims of a historic pandemic.

“It felt good,” Lassiter says. “Even if no one would ever know about it.”

It’s been nearly a year since the pandemic struck Washington. In the first four months of lockdown, the city lost three times as many jobs as it did during the 2008 recession. By July, small business revenue had been cut in half. Metrorail ridership has plunged by as much as 90 percent. Over the coming four years, the District is anticipating a budget gap of roughly $800 million. All told, more than 933,514 people in DC, Maryland, and Virginia have contracted the virus, and 15,148 have died.

Today, Covid fatalities are being processed at the city morgue in Southwest DC; although the number of deaths is once again elevated, it’s well below the peaks of last spring. At the disaster morgue, the light towers have been hauled away and the generators have gone silent. The trailers are resting on a deserted blacktop. Each day, thousands of cars pass right by the site, oblivious to what happened there. If they knew where to look, though, the drivers could see something that Harvin made sure to leave in place. The DC and US flags, rising above the fence.

***

This article appears in the March 2021 issue of Washingtonian.

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German Neo-Nazis Are Still on Facebook. And They’re Using It to Make Money.

There are at least 54 Facebook profiles belonging to 39 entities that the German government and civil society groups have flagged as extremist. Those entities have nearly 268,000 subscribers and friends on Facebook alone.

— September 24, 2021

— By Erika Kinetz

This story is part of a collaboration between The Associated Press and FRONTLINE that examines challenges to the ideas and institutions of traditional U.S. and European democracy.

It’s the premier martial arts brand in Europe for right-wing extremists. German authorities have twice banned their signature tournament, called Kampf der Nibelungen, or Battle of the Nibelungs. But the group still thrives on Facebook, where organizers maintain multiple pages, as well as on Instagram and YouTube, which they use to spread their ideology, draw in recruits and make money through ticket sales and branded merchandise.

The Battle of the Nibelungs — a reference to an old heroic epic much loved by the Nazis — is one of dozens of far-right groups that continue to leverage mainstream social media for profit, despite Facebook’s and other platforms’ repeated pledges to purge themselves of extremism.

All told, there are at least 54 Facebook profiles belonging to 39 entities that the German government and civil society groups have flagged as extremist, according to research shared with The Associated Press by the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit policy and advocacy group formed to combat extremism. The groups have nearly 268,000 subscribers and friends on Facebook alone.

CEP also found 39 related Instagram profiles, 16 Twitter profiles and 34 YouTube channels, which have gotten over half a million views. Nearly 60% of the profiles were explicitly aimed at making money, displaying prominent links to online shops or photos promoting merchandise.

The groups are a who’s who of Germany’s far-right music and combat sports scenes. “These are the ones who build the infrastructure where people meet, make money, enjoy music and recruit,” said Alexander Ritzmann, the lead researcher on the project. “It’s most likely not the guys I’ve highlighted who will commit violent crimes. They’re too smart. They build the narratives and foster the activities of this milieu, where violence then appears.”

CEP said it focused on groups that want to overthrow liberal democratic norms and believe the white race is under siege and needs to be preserved, with violence if necessary. None has been banned, but almost all have been described in German intelligence reports as extremist, CEP said.

Online the groups seem harmless. They avoid blatant violations of platform rules, such as using hate speech or posting swastikas, which is generally illegal in Germany.

By carefully toeing the line of propriety, these key architects of Germany’s far-right use the power of mainstream social media to promote festivals, fashion brands, music labels and mixed martial arts tournaments that can generate millions in sales and connect like-minded thinkers from around the world.

But simply cutting off such groups could have unintended, damaging consequences.

“We don’t want to head down a path where we are telling sites they should remove people based on who they are but not what they do on the site,” said David Greene, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.

Giving platforms wide latitude to sanction organizations deemed undesirable could give repressive governments leverage to eliminate their critics. “That can have really serious human rights concerns,” he said. “The history of content moderation has shown us that it’s almost always to the disadvantage of marginalized and powerless people.”

German authorities banned the Battle of the Nibelungs event in 2019, on the grounds that it was not actually about sports but instead was grooming fighters with combat skills for political struggle.

In 2020, as COVID raged, organizers planned to stream the event online — using Instagram, among other places, to promote the webcast. A few weeks before the planned event, however, over 100 black-clad police in balaclavas broke up a gathering at a motorcycle club in Magdeburg, where fights were being filmed for the broadcast, and hauled off the boxing ring, according to local media reports.

The Battle of the Nibelungs is a “central point of contact” for right-wing extremists, according to German government intelligence reports. The organization has been explicit about its political goals — namely to fight against the “rotting” liberal democratic order — and has drawn adherents from across Europe as well as the United States.

In 2018, members of a California white supremacist street fighting club called the Rise Above Movement, and its founder, Robert Rundo, attended the Nibelungs tournament. A few months later, four Rise Above members were arrested on rioting charges for taking their combat training to the streets at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A number of Battle of Nibelungs alums have landed in prison, including for manslaughter, assault and attacks on migrants.

National Socialism Today, which describes itself as a “magazine by nationalists for nationalists,” has praised Battle of the Nibelungs and other groups for fostering a will to fight and motivating “activists to improve their readiness to fight back.

But there are no references to professionalized, anti-government violence on the group’s social media feeds. Instead, it’s positioned as a health-conscious lifestyle brand, which sells branded tea mugs and shoulder bags.

“Exploring nature. Enjoying home!” gushes one Facebook post above a photo of a musclebound guy on a mountaintop wearing Resistend-branded sportswear, one of the Nibelung tournament’s sponsors. All the men in the photos are pumped and white, and they are portrayed enjoying wholesome activities, such as long runs and alpine treks.

Elsewhere on Facebook, Thorsten Heise — who has been convicted of incitement to hatred and called “one of the most prominent German neo-Nazis” by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the German state of Thuringia — also maintains multiple pages. Frank Kraemer, who the German government has described as a ”right-wing extremist musician,” uses his Facebook page to direct people to his blog and his Sonnenkreuz webshop, which sells white nationalist and COVID conspiracy books, as well as sports nutrition products and ”Vaccine rebel” T-shirts for girls.

Battle of the Nibelungs declined to comment. Resistend, Heise and Kraemer didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Facebook told AP it employs 350 people whose primary job is to counter terrorism and organized hate, and that it is investigating the pages and accounts flagged in this reporting. “We ban organizations and individuals that proclaim a violent mission, or are engaged in violence,” said a company spokesperson, who added that Facebook had banned more than 250 white supremacist organizations, including groups and individuals in Germany. The spokesperson said the company had removed over 6 million pieces of content tied to organized hate globally between April and June and is working to move even faster.

Google said it has no interest in giving visibility to hateful content on YouTube and was looking into the accounts identified in this reporting. The company worked with dozens of experts to update its policies on supremacist content in 2019, resulting in a five-fold spike in the number of channels and videos removed.

Twitter says it’s committed to ensuring that public conversation is “safe and healthy” on its platform and that it doesn’t tolerate violent extremist groups. “Threatening or promoting violent extremism is against our rules,” a spokesperson told the AP.

Robert Claus, who wrote a book on the extreme-right martial arts scene, said that the sports brands in CEP’s data set are “all rooted in the militant far-right neo-Nazi scene in Germany and Europe.” One of the founders of the Battle of the Nibelungs, for example, is part of the violent Hammerskin network, and another early supporter, the Russian neo-Nazi Denis Kapustin, also known as Denis Nikitin, has been barred from entering the European Union for 10 years, he said.

Banning such groups from Facebook and other major platforms would potentially limit their access to new audiences, but it could also drive them deeper underground, making it more difficult to monitor their activities, he said.

“It’s dangerous because they can recruit people,” he said. “Prohibiting those accounts would interrupt their contact with their audience, but the key figures and their ideology won’t be gone.”

Thorsten Hindrichs, an expert in Germany’s far-right music scene who teaches at the University of Mainz, said there’s a danger that the apparently harmless appearance of Germany’s right-wing music heavyweights on Facebook and Twitter, which they mostly use to promote their brands, could help normalize the image of extremists.

Extreme-right concerts alone were drawing around 2 million euros a year in revenue before COVID, he estimated, not counting sales of CDs and branded merchandise. He said kicking extremist music groups off Facebook is unlikely to hit sales too hard, as there are other platforms they can turn to, like Telegram and Gab, to reach their followers. “Right-wing extremists aren’t stupid; they will always find ways to promote their stuff,” he said.

None of these groups’ activity on mainstream platforms is obviously illegal, though it may violate Facebook guidelines that bar “dangerous individuals and organizations” that advocate or engage in violence online or offline. Facebook says it doesn’t allow praise or support of Nazism, white supremacy, white nationalism or white separatism, and bars people and groups that adhere to such “hate ideologies.”

Last week, Facebook removed almost 150 accounts and pages linked to the German anti-lockdown Querdenken movement, under a new “social harm” policy, which targets groups that spread misinformation or incite violence but didn’t fit into the platform’s existing categories of bad actors.

But how these evolving rules will be applied remains murky and contested.

“If you do something wrong on the platform, it’s easier for a platform to justify an account suspension than to just throw someone out because of their ideology. That would be more difficult, with respect to human rights,” said Daniel Holznagel, a Berlin judge who used to work for the German federal government on hate speech issues and also contributed to CEP’s report. “It’s a foundation of our Western society and human rights that our legal regimes do not sanction an idea, an ideology, a thought.”

In the meantime, there’s news from the folks at the Battle of the Nibelungs. “Starting today you can also dress your smallest ones with us,” reads a June post on their Facebook feed. The new line of kids wear includes a pretty shell-pink T-shirt for girls, priced at 13.90 euros. The boy model, in black, already has boxing gloves on.

— FRONTLINE | PBS

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