Responding to COVID-19 pandemic

The second wave of COVID-19 in India has been devastating, with a catastrophic rise in the numbers of new infections in recent weeks.

Healthcare facilities and staff across the country are struggling to cope with the surge in the number of cases of COVID-19.

Hospitals are experiencing a crippling shortage of hospital beds for people with severe cases, plus shortages of oxygen and medicines and limited human resources. 

Overall access to health care is currently compromised.

Right now, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the coronavirus pandemic in Mumbai, Maharashtra. 

We have a team of doctors and nurses working at dedicated COVID-19 health centres in the city. The centre, operated in collaboration with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, is opened to provide treatment to people with moderate and severe COVID-19. 

We are providing health promotion messages in the community, along with water and sanitation activities, in Mumbai’s M-East Ward to prevent the most vulnerable from getting infected in the densely populated informal settlements.

Our emergency teams are experts at fighting disease outbreaks. Your donations will enable us to save the lives of people battling COVID-19, protect our frontline healthcare workers and reach vulnerable populations with medical aid.