Ranchi: The Church of North India (CNI) on Friday launched a free food service for Covid patients, their attendants and the hospital staff working at the St Barnabas Hospital, which is run by the church, in Church Road here.
The free food service, which will continue for the next two weeks, was inaugurated by B B Baskey, who is the bishop of CNI’s Chotanagpur Diocese.
“Today, around 150 patients, their attendants and the hospital staff were given breakfast, lunch and dinner,” Vikla Bakhlaa, who is the general secretary of CNI’s Chotanagpur diocese, said, adding, “CNI would endeavour to come up with more such innovative charity schemes for the benefit of those suffering in other areas of Jharkhand as well.”
Relatives of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 mourn April 29 over the casket before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi. (CNS/Reuters/Adnan Abidi)
Global Sisters Report invited its sister columnists in India to share their experiences of how the terrible outbreak of COVID-19 has affected their country in the last few months. Six sisters wrote special columns, compiled below, describing their experiences and what it is like on the ground as health workers, as tribal citizens, as compassionate caregivers and as victims of the virus themselves. is a Daughter of St. Anne from the Simdega district of Jharkhand, North India. She joined the community right after high school, studying science and social work and finally taking a law degree. She has taught high school science, worked at the Xavier Institute of Management, and served as the province social work coordinator in Ranchi and as a regional secretary of the Conference of Religious India. She