COVID 19 Relief

Every days counts. Now more than ever.

HEALTH FACILITY INTERVENTIONS

Responding to the acute shortage of health infrastructure

1. Oxygen concentrators - Providing oxygen concentrators to primary care facilities in rural areas, where there has been a dire shortage
2. Ventilators – Procuring and ensuring the installation of ventilators in states that have expressed a need
3. Portable hospitals (20 – 100 beds) – Addressing the shortages of beds by adding portable hospitals to existing health facilities
4. Cold-storage equipment - Procuring and ensuring the installation of cold-storage facilities for vaccines, which will become a need as vaccine production increases

FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKER INTERVENTIONS

Helping those who are at the greatest risk of getting infected

1. Community screening and home-based management – Providing pulse oximeters to state governments, for their entire ASHA and ANM workforce, to be able to improve community monitoring of COVID-19 patients and ensure early referral
2. Personal protective gear (PPE) - Providing frontline workers with masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers, for personal protection

COMMUNITY-CENTERED INTERVENTIONS

Education and nutrition remain some of the greatest needs

1. Awareness campaign – Through IVRS, spreading community awareness of sustained COVID-appropriate behavior, including the use of masks, hand hygiene, physical distancing, and home-based care of infected individuals, along with creating awareness on vaccination and related side effects
2. Ensuring nutrition of key vulnerable groups via cash transfer - Supporting the nutritional needs of vulnerable communities, particularly women and children