A group of youngsters in Lucknow are using a WhatsApp group to ensure Covid patients get medical oxygen, hospital beds, ambulance services, plasma and so on as per their requirements. A group of youngsters in Lucknow are using a WhatsApp group to help Covid patients get oxygen, ambulance, plasma, etc. (Photo: Abhishek Mishra)As the second wave of Covid-19 creates shortages of hospital beds, medical oxygen and medicines across India, a group of youngsters in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh are using a WhatsApp group called ‘The Viral WhatsApp Group’ to help Covid patients access the medical resources they require.The group collects leads on medical resources such as plasma, ambulance services, oxygen, hospital beds and so on and verifies them. They also maintain a record of availability of these essentials and provide the same to those who require it. In this way, they have helped provide countless people with life-saving drugs, oxygen, food, etc.Saving livesEven non-resident Indians (NRIs) whose parents got infected and had no one to help have been aided by this group of youngsters. Using information technology, the members of the group have saved people in need.For example, Sagar Vishwakarma, 33 years of age, needed an oxygen cylinder urgently to…
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Lucknow youngsters use WhatsApp group to help Covid patients get oxygen, ambulance, plasma
