The messengers of God – Covid volunteers

 

The storm of Covid was desperate to take the entire human race in its arm. There was mourning of death all around. The government system was getting insufficient to save lives. Death was raging everywhere. Crematoriums were overwhelmed with the dead bodies. Humanity was beginning to be ashamed. Hospitals were full. Medicines and oxygen were not available. In some families whole lives were at stake. Efforts were replaced by prayers. In such tiring times, there was a need of messengers of god. The one who can snatch away the life from the mouth of death .Today in the series of Article, I am going to discuss about these messengers of god. They were working 24X7.They were challenging their limitation every moment. They were creating miracles. I am talking about the individual volunteers, volunteer organizations who were working day in day out and trying to leave their never ending foot print on humanity.

Who were they? They were ordinary people like you and me. You could find them anywhere. You could see them in your Mohalla, society, college, work place .Only thing which make them different or extra ordinary  is when situation arrived they behaved differently. They didn’t curse the situation but fought back.  They didn’t waste their time to criticize the govt but created the alternative. They didn’t see the cast, religion but only saw the humanity. These torch bearers of humanity are endless. I have searched some of these diamonds and putting their side of story. 

Covid Response Team-KP

KP Team lead by Col Rajeev Raina

Colonel was part of Indian army as a maintainability Engineer. Right now he is perusing his MBA in hospital administration

When Covid Cases started increasing social worker in him got distraught and wanted to do something for the society .So he along with Ravin Tarakru, Sunil Rajanak, Vikas , Sandeep Raj Kaul formed the group KP(Kashmir Pandit) Response team  -. This group started working under the active guidance of the core team members- Sunil Raina Rajanak, Usha Munshi, AVM Zadoo, Asheesh, Col Bhan, Rajiv Shukla, AVM Butola

This group further got divided into the sub groups like

1)      Response teams- it had 4 groups .Every group had 256 members.

2)       Doctor’s group-There was 43 doctors in this group.

3)      Data handling group- Collecting the raw data from social media and then verifying it and then further providing it to the needy one was the KRA of this team.

 

There were more than 30 volunteers who were providing 24X7 services to the needy one.

They identify the problem in Delhi NCR-

1)      Unavailability of the hospital beds

2)      Unavailability of the doctors

3)      Unavailability of the oxygen cylinder and concentrators.

 

Govt machinery had already been exhausted. So what would be the way out? This team thought out of the box and spoke to few hospitals authorities and supported them to enhance their capability and in bargain they took commitment from hospitals that 50% of these facility will be exclusively available for kashmiri migrants, old and destitute patients. For arranging these resources they got able support by likeminded organizations-  Kashmir overseas association, Kashmiri Medical Emergency Charitable Trust and Kakini Building Humanity. With the support of these organizations they donated SJM hospital Noida dual oxygen cylinders, flow meters, Medichek Faridabad and  Sri Nand lal swami hospital Shalimar Garden were provided concentrators.

They have got little bit of foot hold in hospitals. Now they had a resource issue for home isolation patients and then for doctors consultation. They arranged concentrator, flow meters for supporting the home isolation patients. They formed the panel of doctors who gave online advice and also conducted zoom sessions. After creating the parallel infrastructure team focused on available govt resources. For exploring existing health infra of Delhi NCR, team started physically verifying the availability of resource in hospitals and then providing to the patients.

With the help of Singapore kashmiri community, basic medicine were provided to the patients.

With the help of Singapore kashmiri community, basic medicine were provided to patients. Langar seva for families of COVID patients was organized by incorporating KP yuva sangathan which provided hot food to patients’ families.

In due course cases started declining in Delhi NCR but in Jammu cases were increasing. They diverted all their energy in Jammu. Two groups were formed in Jammu. The organizations which responded were many in general but Maha gaytri trust in particular which provided and augmented volunteers and extended funding for initial relief. Active member of col Rajeev Raina team ,Dr Rakesh Raina and Sunil Raina Rajanaka spearheaded the Jammu volunteer operations. Jammu wave got subsided but it was felt that vaccination drive needs to be put on fast track by aiding govt resources. So team is in close contact with Kakini and Narayana hospital for vaccination of masses at Jammu and this might be a reality in a few days.

Once operation got stabilized in Jammu they started focusing on Srinagar. They coordinated with  kakini Building Humanity and this organization played a vital role by providing Logistic support in moving of the resources to Vessu and other kashmiri camps. Since migrant population here live in one room huyments, the isolation of Covid patients was not possible. The Covid response teams got into action and with the help of Vijay Raina and Bharat Raina, provided resources to convert the schools into Covid Centres and isolation wards.

Covid response team got hugely benefitted from the service of Ms Ashima as journalist counselor of volunteers and Ms Bharti.Ms bharti organized the data for doctor 4kp campaign and provided filtered data to the volunteers.

 

In the whole exercise they saved thousands of lives and now Covid cases have declined so they have diverted their energy into rehabilitation. They are not only serving the society by their untiring work but also leaving very good mark on humankind. Purpose of bringing out this story is to make people aware that when there is a dark everywhere god will certainly send someone for fighting the darkness. In this story Team KP is that someone. My best wishes to the team.

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To BE CONTINUED……………………

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