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Rakshak Accident and Rescue Service
The service is providing help by getting medicines and other facilities for Covid care. The NGO helps people get medicines that are unavailable in their area. Those in need can contact Rakshak 24/7
Angamaly (Ernakulam)
Sehion Preshita Sangam
The organisation has been providing food for those in quarantine and also those suffering due to the lockdown, besides the poor. The central kitchen provides food for over 1,000 people and this sometimes goes above 2,000.
Edakochi
For Speech and Hearing Impaired
National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH) has launched a 24 7 helpline exclusively for speech and hearing-impaired persons.
The helpline offers counselling services to stress-related issues in addition to answering queries and concerns relating to Covid-19. Sign language interpreters are available to attend WhatsApp video calls.
Mentoring: Yesterday, today and tomorrow December 24, 2020, 7:52 PM IST
Dr Balachandra V. Adkoli, (shortly BV Adkoli) is a medical educationist presently working with Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (Deemed University), Pondicherry. He has earlier served in JIPMER, Pondicherry, AIIMS, New Delhi, National Health Portal of GOI, University of Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is also Accredited Educator for Advanced Trauma Life Support training (ATLS) India. His areas of interest include faculty development, research and publication in medical education with more than 100 publications to his credit. LESS. MORE
Having discussed the importance of mentoring, it is time to look at mentoring in the past, the present scenario and the way forward. No system or practice holds good for all times, and we need to adapt and adopt the good principles of mentoring to the current scenario. However, we need not reinvent the wheel especially when certain things have worked well. Remember t