‘Politics aside’: Youth Congress chief begins help marketing campaign for sufferers, households

“We have kept politics aside and just want to help people…” says Indian Youth Congress (IYC) chief BV Srinivas, who helped 1000’s of migrants attain residence final yr through the lockdown, and is now a part of a nationwide IYC marketing campaign to help households in arranging medicines, hospital beds and even plasma donors.
From arranging a Remdevisir injection to getting a hospital mattress for a Covid-19 affected person, Srinivas and a staff of 1,000 volunteers in each state have been serving to individuals who strategy them since March.
“This year on March 1, Rahul ji visited Delhi for a meeting during which he discussed that the cases may go up in the coming days. So it was then decided to start #SOSIYC and from March 27, we have been actively helping the people who are running from pillar to post in need of plasma, bed or any other support,” he mentioned.
The volunteer groups have been fashioned and have been requested to coordinate with Covid-19 sufferers and their attendants regularly.
Most of the requirement includes plasma and hospital admissions throughout the nation. The staff has acquired over 50,000 requests within the final 10 days and because the variety of calls and messages elevated, they steadily shifted focus to social media. “These volunteers are actively monitoring the requests coming on social networking websites… However, there are many times when we are not able to help the patients but in most cases, we try to help those in need,” mentioned Srinivas.
IYC volunteers regulate mattress availability to achieve out to sufferers as wanted. “We are not keeping a count of the people we are helping. Of the total requests we receive, we are able to update about it on social media in only 20 per cent cases and the rest are managed without promoting it on the social network,” mentioned Srinivas.

“We are talking to the hospitals and coordinating with the administration to donate Remdevisir since it was not available in the local market. We speak to the health officers who can help the patient in getting the medicine… The focus is to cater to the severe cases at the earliest,” he mentioned.

The chief has now began an internet marketing campaign for plasma donation wherein the staff of volunteers are helping folks to get registered on the web site. Once an individual registers, the volunteers attain out to the individual involved and facilitate the donation course of. “Initially, many people were scared… In the beginning, we had requested around 10,000 people all over the country to donate plasma out of which 8,000 had refused to donate their plasma.”