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Highlights Of The #HelpingHands Telethon: An Initiative To Set-Up COVID Centres For Children And Vaccinate People In Rural India
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) and ChildFund present India's Helping Hands, supported by WhatsApp. The campaign aims to raise funds to set-up child-friendly COVID centres and run vaccination drives in vulnerable districts of rural India. These funds will also be used to protect the people of rural India from the severity of the third wave and in the long term, will help skill people who have lost jobs due to the pandemic and make them self-sufficient once more.
Here are the highlights of the #HelpingHands telethon:
Rekha Sharma, Chairperson, National Commission for Women speaks about helping pregnant women who were also COVID-19 positive on #HelpingHands telethon
We started initially, we thought that pregnant women were not getting regular services from the hospital because we read in some of the media reports that they were reaching the hospital, but they were not being provided by the hospital, the beds, proper beds, or even the regular checkups. So, thinking that we can help them out in these services, we started. But later on, we found that most of the complaints, which we got were women who were affected by the COVID. They were pregnant, but affected by the COVID. And we could help them. That's because of many others who supported us, that we could help them in all the cases which we got.
In the second wave, many pregnant women were affected. I must say that we got only a tip of iceberg. I can say we could help only 900 women. They could only reach to us, but I think many, many women were affected in this second wave. But whatever requests came to us, in that period, we started this helpline on 23rd April. And till today we got around 900, 898, requests we received. And, with the help of states, other states, state commissions, health authorities, police, we could help all 900 of them.
Helpline Numbers
My Gov Vaccine Locator
+91-9013151515MyGov is a citizen engagement platform founded by the Government of India
NCW Expectant Mothers’ Helpline
+91-9354954224National Commission for Women's 24×7 helpline number provides medical assistance to expectant mothers
Odisha Chatbot
+91-9337929000WhatsApp chatbot helps citizens search for a vaccine slot, get updated information on beds and oxygen availability
KMC Chatbot
+91-8335999000WhatsApp chatbot helps book vaccination appointments
DC Gurugram Helpline
+91-9643277788Dedicated WhatsApp COVID-19 helpline to provide citizens access to a central repository of all COVID-19 resources
Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation
+91-94999 33644The helpline number helps people with COVID related FAQs, availability of beds, oxygen, tests, doctor consultation
Robinhood Army
+91-8971966164Helpline for Senior citizens to easily get connected to a volunteer who can help them with the COVID-19 vaccination process
COVID Meals For India
+91-8882891316A chatbot that helps COVID patients and healthcare workers connect and order meals from volunteers
COVID Asha Bot
+91-7676522535COVID Asha chatbot provides real-time verified information on oxygen procurement, refilling, and ambulance services
X-Ray Setu
+91-8046163838A free-to-use AI-driven platform to aid doctors for early COVID interventions over WhatsApp
India Shield
+91-9082328320India Shield's helpline aims to support COVID-19 patients in need and provide authoritative information
Edited by Aishwarya Upadhyay | Monday July 05, 2021Odisha Government launched a COVID WhatsApp Helpline to provide citizens access to a host of medical services, verified information, COVID updates, mask-wearing protocols, and now also vaccination slots
- Edited by Barkha Mathur | Monday July 05, 2021
Introbot, the WhatsApp chatbot helped many people by providing real-time, verified, trusted medical resource information and became Indias go-to COVID resources helpline
- Edited by Aastha Ahuja | Wednesday June 30, 2021
A COVID Control Room was set up in Chandigarh, as the hub of COVID management in Punjab
