Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 12 (ANI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister CN AshwathNarayan on Wednesday launched the 'O2 for India' initiative to provide oxygen concentrators to the doorsteps of the COVID-19 patients who are in home isolation.
The catastrophic COVID surge in India, with record numbers of new cases every day, shows few signs of slowing down. A number of humanitarian organizations, governments, individuals, and even celebrities are finding ways to help supply urgently needed resources and medical supplies. Harvard Business School student Shyamli Badgaiyan was among those who quickly mobilized a fundraising effort that has already raised more than $160,000 in aid.
“I had been watching COVID-19 cases surge and been feeling terribly anxious and helpless,” said Badgaiyan, who is from Delhi. “I found myself thinking of ways to help from afar an instinct I would later learn many students across the country were also feeling.”
COVID relief: Salman Khan, ZEE to donate Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai earnings
Prabhu Deva-directed Radhe features Salman Khan as an encounter specialist who is tackling the drug menace in Mumbai. Apart from Salman and Disha Patani, the film also stars Jackie Shroff, Randeep Hooda and Gautam Gulati
BusinessToday.In | May 5, 2021 | Updated 21:56 IST
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Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEE) and actor Salman Khan s production house, Salman Khan Films (SKF), on Wednesday pledged to use the revenues from their upcoming movie Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai towards providing support to COVID-19 relief work across India. We are glad to be a part of this noble initiative, to contribute our bit towards the nation s fight against COVID-19. Since the last year, we have been consistent in our efforts towards fighting COVID-19, since this unprecedented crisis struck our country and the world, the two companies in a statement.
New Delhi, (Delhi), [India], May 4 (ANI/NewsVoir): With a peak in daily cases across the country, COVID-19 has led to a shortage of safe spaces for the underprivileged during their recovery from COVID-19. GiveIndia and OYO Care have launched a fundraising campaign #ShelterForAll with an aim to raise INR 10 crore to offer rooms as isolation and quarantine shelters for COVID-19 positive patients in need.
Indian-American billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla pledged USD 10 million for the supply of medical oxygen to hospitals in India. This is in continuation with the Sun Microsystems co-founder s efforts to fund hospitals for oxygen supplies amid a surge in COVID cases in the country. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, he said there was a need to save lives as further delay may end up in more deaths. For @GiveIndia this isn t enough. They ve received requests for 20,000 oxygen concentrators, 15,000 cylinders, 500 ICU beds, 100 ventilators, 10,000-beds COVID centres with requests coming from non-profits & hospitals all across India every day. We need to do a lot more urgently, Khosla said.