Responding to Record Number of Cases, Citizen Volunteers Lead COVID Relief Effort in India
NEW DELHI—A three-month-old baby boy from Nagpur city in central India was COVID positive and his desperate parents reached out on Twitter for help.
A team of volunteers called India Cares connected the parents with a volunteer pediatrician who virtually guided the parents, who were under quarantine. The child tested negative five days later.
“Thank you for arranging the doctor’s call. Directions from Doctor were helpful. Baby’s second test came negative,” the baby’s parents said in a message to Pallavi Kulshrestha, the Delhi-based India Cares volunteer who coordinates consultations with a team of 45 volunteer doctors who are attending to patients from around India.