As the second wave of Covid-19, now being referred to as Covid19-2.0, rages through Kashmir, Non Governmental Organisations (NGO), frontline workers, and volunteers on the ground are gearing up once again to tackle the visibly disastrous consequences. Driven by community concern and lived experiences of crisis management, a number of these groups are providing people oxygen concentrators, cylinders, personal protection equipment (PPE) kits, and ambulance services. Some individuals, small groups have also joined the effort.
At times, even managing well-cooked, nutritious food to the families affiliated by the contagion is being managed by some of these groups.
Unlike 2020, the battle this year is challenging. In the second wave, as the mutant virus proliferates much faster it is straining the public health infrastructure and resources. Hospitals in Kashmir and in Jammu have already reported that they are running out of the beds. Now, the administration is adding new transit spaces but Oxygen is key to all this.
KNOCK AT THE DOOR
On April 21, Faisal Ahmad, 24, a resident of Pampore’s Frestabal was desperately searching for an oxygen concentrator as his father, 56, who had turned Covid-19 positive on the same day, had his oxygen saturation dipping dangerously. According to doctors, Ahmad said, his father’s condition was stable and before discharging him from the hospital doctors advised home isolation for him. They also asked him to arrange an oxygen concentrator.
Once home, frantic, helpless, young Ahmad started his search for scarce oxygen concentrator and soon came to know about the NGO Help Together Foundation, which lends them for free. Within a couple of minutes, a volunteer knocked on his door and gave him the equipment and trained him to use it.
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