The concept of mid-level health providers started 100 years ago in many countries and showed a remarkable change in their health indicators. Since last 10 years, the growth of health professionals is in rise with its new emerging roles. Special training with adopted skills is required for mid-level health care providers and the outline roles and responsibilities are already in existence for them. Mid-level health care providers are new emerging workforce in healthcare sector. India is alarming country for disease burden and to cover the huge gap in providing health care facilities, it requires the mid-level health care providers at different settings of the country. Indian community setting is in need to have access of affordable health care and government of India through National Health Mission (NHM) has declare the new pivotal role of community health officer (CHO) with its constructed roles and responsibilities for public health. According to NMC bill 2019, nurses are the first choice for CHO and this will also pave the way for professional development. Since there is global shortage of healthcare professionals and raising need of health care facilities especially in community setting, CHO is new evolving role which will promote the health care in access to community public. CHO being Midlevel health care provider will reduce the burden of other healthcare professionals and also contribute to achieve the aim of ‘health for all’. The aim of this review was to bring a new insight of CHO with its global concept.

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Title: Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients dead body care in a tertiary care hospital. Authors: Girraj Saini, Mahendra Singh, Prasan Kumar Panda, Manish Kumar Sharma, Pankaj Punjot, Raviprakash Meshram, Puneet Kumar Gupta. Aim: To know the dead body care of COVID 19 patients. Objective: 1.To determine health care professionals, knowledge, attitude, and practice towards Covid-19 dead body care. 2. To find the association of knowledge, attitude, practice with selected demographic variables. Background: COVID -19 was a global pandemic and it was a serious note for health care professionals from many aspects. The virus was infective and causes serious infections to patients which were easily transmitted, hence specific dead body care is required for such kinds of patients. To keep this background in mind the study was conducted to identify the knowledge, practice and attitude towards COVID-19 dead body care among nurses. Methodology: A cross sectional survey based study was done on 282 samples.Quantitative research design with purposive sampling technique data was collected for knowledge,attitude, and practice. Result: Knowledge, attitude and practice were assessed and association was done with demographic profile. Hence the good knowledge, attitude and practice were observed in experienced and trained nurses (p value<0.005. Whereas no significant changes were observed with age, gender and education qualification. Conclusion: Overall knowledge, attitude and practice regarding COVID -19 dead body care were moderate to good. But it was important to identify the gap as it was a global pandemic and higher chances of spreading of infection. Keywords: Contact transmission, Corona virus disease 2019, Dead body, Healthcare workers, and Questionnaire study.