The second wave and unprecedented rise in Covid-19 in India has wreaked havoc and left many people helpless looking for oxygen cylinders, vacant beds, ICU support, vaccine, mental health counselling, especially in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Pune being the worst-hit areas.
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The second wave and unprecedented rise in Covid-19 in India has wreaked havoc and left many people helpless looking for oxygen cylinders, vacant beds, ICU support, vaccine, mental health counselling, especially in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Pune being the worst-hit areas.
To tackle the crucial situation and help people in panic find resources easily to treat their loved ones. Like-minded people, self taught developers, experts from IT sector, state government and others have joined hands to create an application and website to help people sort out real time vacant bed, oxygen cylinders, vaccine details and mental health counselling.
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New Delhi, May 25 : The second wave and unprecedented rise in Covid-19 in India has wreaked havoc and left many people helpless looking for oxygen cylinders, vacant beds, ICU support, vaccine, mental health counselling, especially in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Pune being the worst-hit areas.
To tackle the crucial situation and help people in panic find resources easily to treat their loved ones. Like-minded people, self taught developers, experts from IT sector, state government and others have joined hands to create an application and website to help people sort out real time vacant bed, oxygen cylinders, vaccine details and mental health counselling.
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The self-taught developers are also helping people from other states to develop something similar to help the needy in their cities
Vensy Krishna, Medha Kadri, and Abhishek Anirudhan - the masterminds behind the app. (Photo: Instagram)
With the rise in Covid infections, patients are facing acute problems in finding hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, medicines, and other resources in Hyderabad.
The hospitals are full, pharmacies do not have critical care drugs like remdesivir or Fabiflu tablets and oxygen cylinders are black-marketed and sold at 40 to 50 per cent higher than the normal market rate.
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In the second wave of coronavirus, the demand for medical oxygen has increased throughout the country with a rapid surge of COVID-19 cases. Family members of COVID patients are running from one hospital to another for beds. Most of the people are coming forward to help in terms of passing the information regarding the availability of vacant beds, oxygen cylinders, etc., Many messages with the information are being circulated on social media.
Vensy Krishna, Medha Kadri and Abhishek Anirudhan along with 50 young Hyderabadi volunteers are helping out people who are in need by calling and verifying the messages related to COVID-19 resources and are giving valid information.