These young guns rose up to run Covid war room
Aanya said there was a need to organise the large number of requests and match them with available resources.
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BENGALURU: A group of young Indians is stepping out to help sick people who are desperately seeking hospital beds, life-saving medicines and resources such as oxygen, plasma donors, ambulances etc at a time when the health infrastructure in the country has almost collapsed.
Aanya Wig, a 21-year-old final year student of Lady Sri Ram (LSR) College, New Delhi, formed a WhatsApp group ‘Covid Fighters (India)’ after she found people posting urgent requests on Instagram for medical assistance.
Onlinekhabar
February 19, 2021
Kathmandu, February 19
The Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN) organised the Nepal Journathon on Covid-19, a one-day hackathon, in its bid to seek solutions to current challenges to the country’s pandemic response.
Five groups consisting of 25 journalists, health professionals, and tech activists worked together in the online event on Thursday to find and create long-term solutions.
They introduced five solutions, among which the organisers awarded three with a prize money that would ideally support the participants to implement their ideas.
A three-member panel including Brown University Alpert Medical School’s Dr Ramu Kharel, NIMJN’s Rajneesh Bhandari and development specialist Sharada Gyawali selected the top three ideas among the five presented based on feasibility, implementability, innovativeness, importance in the context of Nepal and quality of the presentation. Top three ideas were awarded Rs 50,000, Rs 30,0