Join the three-pronged COVID-19 response

With the onset of the second wave of Covid-19, the healthcare infrastructure in India is facing an acute crisis. Hospitals and COVID-care centers struggle under a tremendous flood of patients, even as they grapple with a severe shortage of doctors, nurses, medical and non-medical staff. The death toll from shortfall in oxygen supply and lack of ventilators and other critical care equipment is mounting. Although 80% of affected do not require hospitalization, the essential supplies and medical support needed to provide care and counselling at home are falling short. As we head towards the peak of this wave, we need all the help we can get to reduce the loss of life, and get the spread of the pandemic under control.

The action we take today will decide the intensity of the third wave.

Sambhav Foundation (an initiative of LabourNet) has a three-pronged approach to reducing the immediate damage from the second wave, and bringing lasting improvements in our readiness for pandemic situations.

Providing COVID patients with the care they need -

1. Home Care - Helping mild to moderate patients isolate themselves at home by providing information, timely assistance, medicines and daily doctor consultations.
2. COVID-care centers - Setting up transitory facilities of upto 100 beds with qualified staff and equipment for those who cannot be isolated at home.

Reducing the burden on hospitals and front-line medical workers -

1. Hospital Helpdesks - Placing Medical Social Workers at 24/7 desks at hospitals to support patients and their families with testing, admission, and counselling.
2. COVID Helplines - Trained operators provide patients with the information on bed availability and COVID protocol
3. Healthcare staffing - Ensure hospitals and COVID-care centers are fully staffed with doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, X-ray technicians, GDAs etc.
4. Critical Care Equipment - Helping hospitals achieve oxygen independence through oxygen concentrators and plants, and helping them access and utilise equipment like BiPAP machines.

Arresting the spread of COVID -

1. COVID Relief - Providing food kits, masks and PPE kits to vulnerable communities and frontline workers
2. Vaccination drives - Awareness programs, vaccination for vulnerable communities and non-medical frontline workers, and post vaccination counselling

To date, 50 Sambhav Helpdesks have been set-up at hospitals and have facilitated treatment for over 9,500 patients.

We’ve also facilitated 10,000+ COVID tests, and cared for 4000+ patients under home isolation.

Our first COVID-care center is set-up and running successfully, and we’ve helped hospitals and care centers become oxygen self-sufficient by supplying over 200 oxygen concentrators.

But, our work has only just begun. COVID-19 is advancing relentlessly, this is the time to step up our efforts. We seek your help to make this possible.

Our goal is -

-      to set-up COVID help desks at 100 hospitals

-      to set-up 5 COVID-care centers

-      to provide 10,000 patients with care at home

-      to make 50 hospitals oxygen self-sufficient

-      to vaccinate 1 million non-medical frontline workers on priority basis.