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Team Madad, A Group Of COVID Volunteers In Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur Emerge As Saviours
Gorakhpur: During the tough times when Gorakhpur witnessed deaths and sufferings due to COVID-19, a group of 15 young volunteers calling themselves ‘Team Madad’ have emerged as saviours, helping people with food, medicines and counselling. From providing information about vacant ICU beds and ventilators to delivering medicines and arranging transportation, the team which comprises students, professionals, social activists and journalists, has come to the rescue of the needy. One of the members, Satya Charan Rai, told PTI that the volunteers came in contact on social media during the first wave of coronavirus and formed a team.
We started holding online meetings and decided to feed migrant labourers. Each one of us started distributing food with the help of local volunteers in their respective areas, he said.
Team “Madad”, which means “help”, has seven women members and it has also been actively working towards arranging plasma and providing counselling.
We also contacted public representatives to strengthen our drive and circulated our phone numbers on social media after which we started getting calls round the clock, Mr Rai said.
“During the second wave of the pandemic, especially last month, many people were not getting medicines so we started contacting wholesalers and helped in delivering and providing information about the availability of medicines,” he said.
The team collected data on vacant beds with the help of patients as the hospitals did not cooperate, he said, adding that a list of COVID hospitals was also circulated on social media. Mr Rai further said that a WhatsApp group including the team members and administrative officials was formed which was very helpful in extending help to the needy. Talking about the support they received from officials, he mentioned that Sadar tehsildar went out of the way to help patients. On the team’s efforts in rural areas, he said,
The condition is now getting better in Gorakhpur and there is no crisis of oxygen and beds but there is a surge in COVID cases in rural areas which is a real challenge as the healthcare system is not strong there.
“We are also focusing on rural areas now. We are giving online counselling to people and trying to fill them up with positive energy,” he stressed.
Recognising the help extended to him by Team Madad, Shamshad Ansari, resident of Bishnupura village, said,
My 35-year-old wife Nafeesa Khatoon is suffering from chronic kidney disease and during the first week of May she tested COVID positive. When we failed to get an ICU bed, we contacted Team Madad and they not only informed us about a vacant ICU bed but also helped me in getting medicines.
“My wife is now out of danger and I am very thankful to Team Madad as they not only helped me but gave me counselling during these stressful days,” he added.
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India
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Cases
Active
Recovered
Deaths
Maharashtra
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4,04,229 18,020
49,78,937 51,457
84,371 594
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18,734 365
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18,352 280
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2,09,736 1,765
12,79,110 24,819
9,686 106
Delhi
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45,047 5,816
13,39,326 9,427
22,346 235
West Bengal
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1,31,491 302
10,45,643 19,151
13,733 157
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85,868 4,514
8,33,161 10,048
12,182 146
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1,53,126 6,329
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7,219 139
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92,617 3,826
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9,340 71
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77,607 5,360
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7,227 88
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70,758 5,156
6,38,673 11,821
7,076 153
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4,143 104
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95,392 1,042
5,46,631 10,036
2,378 21
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46,946 1,164
4,90,620 4,976
3,037 25
Punjab
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70,499 1,778
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12,525 208
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49,737 1,997
2,94,831 4,057
2,433 89
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28,841 2,687
2,89,333 4,528
4,654 53
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73,172 3,060
2,21,785 7,359
5,325 193
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50,494 431
2,02,039 4,338
3,355 62
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35,124 236
1,32,421 3,091
2,529 69
Goa
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22,964 982
1,14,793 2,160
2,228 31
Puducherry
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17,652 175
70,615 1,555
1,241 29
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56,927 414
6,570 465
49,701 870
656 9
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43,496 720
6,325 401
36,718 316
453 3
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6,817 212
33,813 347
635 23
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25,744 872
5,769 437
19,596 411
379 24
Arunachal Pradesh
22,799 337
2,585 188
20,125 148
89 1
Nagaland
18,958 244
4,426 19
14,298 219
234 6
Ladakh
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1,589 6
15,158 127
171 1
Sikkim
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3,092 42
8,649 222
214 2
Dadra And Nagar Haveli
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656 48
9,088 144
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Mizoram
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2,143 14
7,271 177
30 1
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229 6
6,385 26
95 3
Lakshadweep
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1,474 192
3,974 59
18 3
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