COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund

The second wave of Covid-19 is sweeping through India with the ferocity of an inferno and we have all sadly seen the haunting, heart-breaking images of death and human suffering that it is leaving in its wake.

Well over 300,000 positive cases each day - the highest figures recorded in any country at any point during the pandemic. 

Deaths are soaring and the makeshift pyres being constructed on pavements outside crematoriums are a grim reminder that the official death toll is probably grossly underestimated.

In cities across India, the tragedy is the same. Desperate shortage of beds, oxygen running out, medicines are scarce, ventilators only available for the lucky few. The situation in smaller towns and villages is unimaginable. Last year, thousands of NGOs and their staff stepped in across the country to provide basic food and medical supplies to thousands of migrants and marginalised communities.

This time around, the situation is dire. The sudden spike in cases has brought the nation's healthcare system to its knees and urgent funds are needed to support front line workers, migrant families and critically ill COVID-19 patients who are struggling for oxygen support.

With many parts of the country on lockdown, requests for basic food rations from vulnerable communities we work with are increasing. iPartner India has identified the families of migrants and other vulnerable groups across various states of India who are in the dire need of receiving basic essentials. iPartner India will provide ration support, hygiene kit and basic medicines to such families.

There is also an urgent need to provide Oxygen to those needlessly dying in hospitals due to the shortage of it. As critically ill patients are being turned away from hospitals, there is a need to provide essential medicines, food and even oxygen supplies to those struggling to survive at home. We have also been forced to recognise the need to provide immediate and much needed support to our frontline workers. iPartner India will ensure oxygen support to critically ill patients and home based care, medical consultation and treatment to COVID-19 positive person from a vulnerable group or to our frontline workers from NGOs.

It is a race against time. We are being flooded with cries for help. Civil society led efforts are the only ones actually reaching people in distress therefore we must not stop and continue our efforts to save lives.  

iPartner India would like to ensure zero death from hunger. iPartner India would like to see people walking out happy and healthy from COVID hospitals.

We would like to be a pillar of support for those struggling in isolation without any medical care and support be it an individual or our frontline workers.

iPartner India will ensure support to 152 patients struggling for oxygen, 500 families for ration support, and 100 COVID-19 patients for home based care and treatment.