Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has invited professional advisors to join in its fight against COVID-19.

The State chief secretary, Asit Tripathy, has appealed the senior professionals with long experience of working in large corporate initiatives in health care, hospital infrastructure and management, international logistics and sourcing of equipments, accessories and materials, and also exposure to working with the governments, private and public charitable sectors to work with the government in its fight against the deadly virus. Tripathy has urged the interested senior professionals to be engaged as honorary advisor to work with the government to write to him. He has clarified that they would be required to assist the government at senior management level.