›As country struggles to tackle Covid surge, young India steps up to fight the pandemic with apps and oxygen
As country struggles to tackle Covid surge, young India steps up to fight the pandemic with apps and oxygen
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As country struggles to tackle Covid surge, young India steps up to fight the pandemic with apps and oxygenAFP
Last Updated: May 04, 2021, 09:03 AM IST
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With two-thirds of its 1.3-billion people under the age of 35, India is an overwhelmingly young country, but its youth have never been called on to shoulder such huge responsibilities.
MUMBAI: Her exam revision done, schoolgirl Swadha Prasad gets on with her real work: finding life-saving oxygen, drugs and hospital beds for Covid-19 patients as India reels from a brutal second wave of infections.
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India s young fight the COVID-19 pandemic with apps and oxygen
Local resident Shanawaz Shaikh, who sold his SUV to raise funds in order to start a free service to provide oxygen cylinders to needy people amid the COVID-19 pandemic, wipes his face with a towel while working at an oxygen distribution centre in a slum in Mumbai. (Photo: AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
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MUMBAI: Her exam revision done, schoolgirl Swadha Prasad gets on with her real work: Finding life-saving oxygen, drugs and hospital beds for COVID-19 patients as India reels from a brutal second wave of infections.
As their government struggles to tackle the pandemic, young Indians are stepping into the breach.
Many are delivering vital supplies, using social media to direct resources or setting up apps to crowdsource aid.
Her exam revision done, schoolgirl Swadha Prasad gets on with her real work: finding life-saving oxygen, drugs and hospital beds for Covid-19 patients.
If we can do it for movie theatres, to avoid overbooking, why can t we do it for hospitals?
Umang Galaiya
Swadha works with dozens of volunteers – all aged between 14 and 19 – as part of the youth-led organisation Uncut, building online databases packed with information about medical resources available across the country.
The Straits Times
India s young fight the coronavirus pandemic with apps and oxygen
Local resident Shanawaz Shaikh (right) checks the pressure of a cylinder at an oxygen distribution centre in a slum in Mumbai, on April 28, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
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Her exam revision done, schoolgirl Swadha Prasad gets on with her real work: finding life-saving oxygen, drugs and hospital beds for Covid-19 patients as India reels from a brutal second wave of infections.