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Help India fight 2nd deadly wave of COVID-19
Rajeshwari Devi, 58, died on Sunday after waiting for two days to get uninterrupted oxygen, an ambulance and a bed in a Covid-19 hospital. She kept waiting and gasping but it was too late by the time help arrived. She was taken to a hospital emergency room on 16 April after her oxygen saturation level dropped. Her CT scan showed that she had developed severe pneumonia. But without her Covid report the hospital refused to admit her. She spent around 36 hours in the emergency room on oxygen support. The staff there told her family they were running out of oxygen and she needed to be moved to a bigger hospital but there was no ambulance or any promise of a bed. The desperate family took her in their car to a hospital where a bed had become available after the intervention of a politician. She had no oxygen support in the car - she died minutes before she could be admitted to hospital. Ashish Agrahari, her son, says his mother would have had a chance at survival if treatment was given in time. Heartbreaking stories such as this are coming in from across India as second Covid wave wreaks havoc.
But the country’s healthcare system is crumbling amid the surge in cases - doctors say it’s hard for them to “see the light at the end of the tunnel this time” Prime Minister Modi expressed concern over spread of the Covid virus to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. Prime Minister spoke at length on the oxygen supply issue which has been in the news due to reports of deaths of patients across various states as hospitals have run out of oxygen……
Help India fight 2nd deadly wave of COVID-19
Mass cremation of COVID-19 Victims in New Delhi
Relative grieve, after 24 hours Covid-19 patient died, allegedly due to shortage of oxygen cylinders
SUPREME TASK INDIA's RESONSE TO COVID-19 SECOND WAVE
The second wave of COVID pandemic in India has unleashed an unprecedented public health crisis caused due to the large-scale spread of COVID infection in all parts of the country. According to the news reports, the past few days have witnessed cases reaching till 4,00,000 per day and nearly 2500 COVID’19 related deaths in different parts of the country.
The health system, particularly in the large cities and urban areas, is failing miserably due to the rapid increase in the number of COVID patients who are desperately seeking medical assistance and supplemental oxygen. As COVID’19 is raging on, Supreme Task India has a desire to reach out to people in the slums of Delhi and villagers in Odisha.
We need to immediately address burning issues. The poor people are in extreme need of oxygen and beds. People coming from well-established families aren’t able to find beds, so think about the plight of the poor. Many of them passed away outside the hospital itself while standing in the long emergency queues. Many individuals who are in home isolation have infected their own family members. Their homes get sealed and they don’t have anyone to get them essentials and medicines.
With these intentions, Supreme Task India will launch an initiative in emergency, which seeks to directly support COVID’19 affected families. We aspire to provide prevention, vaccination, hygiene and food security interventions.
Many COVID patients and their families can be benefitted, as we will be helping them with cooked meals and medications for the COVID patients. Also, we would like to provide Oxygen Concentrators to patients who are in extreme need of it. Adolescent girls and women in the slums do not have access to sanitary pads, lack of which will further deteriorate their health and hygiene.
Girls carrying their deceased father to the cremation ground
Migrants and other passenger arrive at railway station to head their hometown, amidst curfew imposed to prevent the spead of Covid-19
Health Worker adjust oxygen mask of COVID-19 positive patient as she receive primary treatment inside an autorickshaw at Government COVID-19 hospital
A Covid-19 patient gets primary treatment inside a car as he waits to be admitted at a hospital
Relatives of Covid-19 patients queue to collect oxygen
STI’s RESONSE TO COVID-19 FIRST WAVE
During the first wave of the pandemic our organization helped to provide dry ration and hygiene kits to our beneficiaries. We provided dry ration to around 15000 families in the vicinity of South West Delhi.
The situation during the first pandemic was also volatile and hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were on exodus. There was fear in the minds of people of the new virus and the terror that how will it impact someone’s life.
Supreme Task whole heartedly fought against the first wave and reached out to the migrant laborers and needy families in providing dry ration, hygiene kits. Similarly, in the second wave we are hopeful to be of substance and stretch out a hand to the people who are struggling with the sudden crisis. People don’t get beds in hospitals and unable to get oxygen cylinders hence, they are losing their lives.
Emergency relief drive by Supreme Task