Local Organizations Going All Out To Combat COVID Crisis In India
CBS New York 2 days ago Syndicated Local – CBS New York
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – The COVID crisis continues to surge out of control in India.
With more than 350,000 daily new cases, the nation is on pace to see more than one million deaths by midsummer.
Here at home, Long Island’s South Asian community is responding.
As CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reports, Sikh, Hindu and Muslim prayers in Hicksville, home to New York’s fastest growing Indian-American community, are addressing an urgent need they know prayers alone can’t fix.
Want To Help India With The Current COVID Crisis? Don t Send Medical Supplies on Your Own
Workers load oxygen cylinders to supply hospitals and medical facilities treating COVID-19 patients in Bangalore on May 5, 2021.
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The heartbreaking stories and images coming from India have many wondering how they can help. Local families with relatives there are scrambling to raise funds and send medical goods. But is it the best way to help? Doctors and public health experts say donating money to established organizations in India that have on the ground networks is a better approach.
India’s current COVID-19 wave has created an overwhelming need for oxygen and oxygen concentrators the small devices that can distill oxygen from ambient air as well as ventilators and certain medications like Remdesivir, said Dr. Dhrumil Shah, a primary care physician and current president of the Indian Medical Association of New England (IMANE). But Dr. Shah says