Indians on social media are leaving no stone unturned in offering help to individuals seeking help with Covid-19 essentials in this worsening pandemic situation across the country.
Whether it¡¯s through long Google docs that have contact details for sourcing essential services or groups of volunteers who are offering help to get anything delivered to the doorstep of people infected with the novel coronavirus.?
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On Twitter, I stumbled upon another individual, by the name of @joshephradhik -- a Sony Global Imaging ambassador by profession, who listed out links to all apps, groups, list for essential services across the nation on a long Twitter thread.?
Some of the tweets include social media handles offering verified info on COVID-19 resources. Several tweets also include Google Documents with a list of contact information based on specific locations. These also include online Twitter-aggregator apps to help you efficiently seek the info you need.?
Here are some of the services shared by him that you can check out.
This glide app has been by far one of the most comprehensive. It has basically aggregated and categorised tweets of people seeking and offering services for COVID-19 essentials all over India. This includes oxygen, plasma, ambulance, meals, meds as well as a forum where people can message their need in a forum that volunteers can respond to, in real-time.?
Check out the Covid Help Glide App
Next, he¡¯s linked an Instagram handle offering information for COVID-19 resources across the nation. Users with specific requirements can comment on a particular image that fits in their request category -- these can include people looking for oxygen resources, people looking for specific blood types in specific cities.?
Instagram: Covid Aid Resources
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This is a list of helpline numbers specifically for COVID-19 and resources like plasma, remdesivir, favipiravir and other medications. These also include state-wise contact info for SOS Helpline, COVID-19 tests, hospital bends, ambulance, food etc. They do highlight that even though the list included verified numbers, chances are some might not be working, so take that into consideration.?
Google Docs: All India Helpline Numbers
Next on the list is a Hyderabad-specific online app that has aggregated information on COVID-19 essentials. These include resources like oxygen, plasma, ambulance, tiffin services, even mental health counselling and post-death arrangements.?
Check out Hyderabad COVID Resouces
This is another Instagram page catering to COVID-19 essentials but specific to the city of Bengaluru. The post consists of contact information for crucial COVID-19 resources such as oxygen, ambulance, plasma, remdesivir, even info on home care and crematorium.
Check out Covid Bangalore Support Instagram
Another site specifically for the city of Bengaluru. The site offers info on oxygen availability, hospital beds availability, contact info for ambulances, info on teleconsultation for doctors, blood donation requests etc.?
For people who need to avail food/tiffin services while struggling with the novel coronavirus, this Google Docs has aggregated details of tiffin services in several parts of our nation. The list includes detailed contact info for tiffin services from states like Maharashtra/Goa, Delhi NCR, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and others.?
This Instagram handle was first shared by another Twitter user Aanchal Agarwal, which Joesph retweeted. The Instagram handle is offering info on plasma donors, but along with this, it has also listed other essentials like remdesivir and fabiflu drugs across the nation.?
Joesph also reshared this Twitter handle by @risingsurbhi that has listed COVID-19 resources specifically for the city of Nashik.?
These include resources like oxygen hospital beds as well as info on remdesivir availability.
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This website focuses only on showing the availability of hospital beds across the city of Bhopal. Volunteers are constantly updating the data to make sure people get hospital beds in time. The list also includes contact info for the hospital should you want to call them ask for the availability in real-time.
This Google doc offers info on teleconsultation, oxygen cylinders, food delivery, plasma donation and COVID-19 testing throughout the city of Kolkata. It also offers details on COVID-19 drugs such as fabiflu and ambulances.?
Kolkata COVID-19 Resources Google Docs
This is a comprehensive list of contact numbers to get access to COVID-19 essentials like ambulance, remdesivir, testing labs, as well as helplines specific to different wards of the city. It also has contact info for an area-wise list of fever clinics.
Created by @twtanushkaa and @dond_tejas, this is a Twitter bot that responds to people¡¯s requests for COVID-19 resources when the account is tagged. The account responds to requests in the comments of the post the bot is tagged in. It is able to reply baked on a large database of beds, oxygen, medicines, medicines etc.?
Resources for COVID-19 Twitter
Another online COVID-19 resource aggregator app, however, this time on platform Vercel. It has collated info from Tweets for COVID resources by several users and categorised based on the area and the resource itself. The site also lists contact info for helplines and other COVID-19 help documents/ groups that people can check out.?
Joseph also listed a citizen-driven COVID-19 helpline that¡¯s completely managed by volunteers.?
People can connect with the volunteers via phone on +91 9999109157 or text on WhatsApp on +91 6307383680.?
This site shows updated information on available hospital beds in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It has listed 13 districts from Andra Pradesh showing details on ICU beds, beds with oxygen as well as general beds and beds with ventilators.
COVID-19 Andhra Pradesh Hospital Bed Availability
The website factchecker.in has gone ahead and listed a series of verified helpline numbers to help people in need connect with COVID-19 resources instantly. The helplines include contact info for oxygen cylinders, hospital beds and regular COVID-19 related helpline. However, this as of now is only limited to specific cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai Nagpur, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.
Fact Checker Verified helplines
This is another online COVID-19 resource-related twitter aggregator where it helps you look for specific stuff on the platform, based on region, kind of COVID-19 resource (such as food, plasma, medicine, or oxygen) and also if the resource is verified or not.?
In case you¡¯re looking for availability of hospital beds in Tamil Nadu, the site by the Tamil Nadu government updates info on hospital beds availability every hour. The list shows the availability of beds across the 10 districts of Chennai. Sadly, it doesn't provide appropriate contact info for the hospitals.?