Covid-19 Frontline Warriors
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These youngsters are bridging the urban-rural healthcare divide
Doctors and volunteers at the World Youth Heart Federation, a non-profit that has been providing Covid-19 relief, now plan to strengthen rural healthcare infrastructure
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How a team of students is helping non-critical patients find beds
After setting up a website that covers 446 cities across the country, they are now setting up care centres in rural areas
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Gramin Health Care helps rural India battle fear of Covid-19
Present in 1,000 villages across India, the Gramin team provides tele-consultation and door-to-door delivery of medicines and has also set up a free 24x7 Covid-19 hotline, run by clinicians, nurses and doctors
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Covid-19 Frontline Warriors: No help from the government yet on medical aid, vaccines - Dr Swaiman Singh, only doctor at farmer protests
Dr Singh, a 34-year-old US-based cardiologist, has been fulfilling the medical and other critical needs of protesting farmers for months now. What started as a five-day stint, has become an indefinite stay at the Delhi's borders where farmers have been protesting against the three farm laws since last year. Dr Singh helps Covid-19 patients, other medical needs, and his team builds temporary housing, libraries, and more
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Old friends join hands to reach oxygen to forgotten corners
Medical Oxygen for All, a group of former BITS-Pilani batchmates from India and abroad, source and deliver oxygen concentrators to districts with limited infrastructure and zero limelight
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These corporate professionals and students give Covid-19 victims a dignified burial
The Cherian family, along with the Here I Am team in Bengaluru, conducted close to 25 burials a day during the peak of the second wave. Amid the distress, the young team of volunteers managed to find friendship and support in each other
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In remote Himalayan villages, a team of volunteers pitches in with Covid-19 care
Live to Love International, an NGO, helps people with vitamins, mental health well-being support, besides sanitising villages and getting oximeters, steamers and oxygen concentrators to villagers
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Covid-19 Warriors: Ahmedabad's angels ensure there is no shortage of medical supplies and food in rural Gujarat
Team Sahaay spread its medical and community efforts in the hamlets as coronavirus cases began to surge in the interiors of the state
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As Covid-19 hits family financials, mother-son duo feeds people, helps them earn a living
Heena and Harsh Mandavia have distributed over 26,000 meals in Mumbai's western suburbs by employing households that have lost jobs or faced paycuts due to the pandemic
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Friends Studios provides emotional support to Covid-19 patients in MP's Katni district
Around 10 friends visit Covid-19 care centres every day to assist medical staff and take care of patients' emotional wellbeing
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An army to help doctors, frontline workers process the trauma of Covid-19
Dr Radhika Bapat and Dr Uma C Millner have brought together a network of 500-plus mental health professionals and social workers under the Indian Network of the Diaspora for Essential Aid and Relief (INDEAR) to provide mental health assistance to people fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic