Urgent Requirement Of Your Help - Aahwahan Foundation

In February 2021, health workers were beginning to believe they had won the war against the pandemic and its deadly surge was quickly easing. The number of patients in the Covid-19 ward of hospitals had reduced, ICUs were empty after almost a year, and doctors were treating patients suffering from other diseases. In short, life was returning to normal. However, the sense of relief among the healthcare professionals turned out to be unkindly short-lived. They realized that our celebrations were premature. 

India’s second wave has not spared the nation; as per reports, the virus is more transmissible currently. The situation is highly alarming because entire families are being infected and lots of young people below the age of 40 are falling sick. Deaths are climbing, the healthcare infrastructure is stretched, and doctors and nurses face crippling fatigue and burnout. Experts believe we are in this for the long haul and hospitals report acute shortages of beds, oxygen, and medicines. Families of patients are driving for miles to get a hospital bed and there have been instances wherein people are dying on the streets as the nation is struggling to cope with the magnitude of the health problem.

Aahwahan Foundation has been at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic. Our volunteers have responded on a war footing, conducting door-to-door testing to identify Covid patients. We are collaborating with around 48 hospitals in Bengaluru and supporting them through the supply of PPE kits, oximeters, medicines, and testing kits. We coordinate with a corporate to set up the healthcare infrastructure in a hospital (120 beds – 30 beds with oxygen cylinders and 90 standard beds).

Reports of infection and illness among frontline health workers are mounting daily and we must protect the health workers who are working tirelessly to protect us. Gruelling hours and shortage in supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) and testing kits force them to make tough decisions.

The vulnerability of health workers is the most ruthless lesson of the pandemic so far. Patients’ safety, to a large extent, depends on the safety of health workers. There is an urgent requirement for oximeters, PPE kits, and testing kits. Primary health centres across Bengaluru and at the district level across Karnataka are reeling and there is an immediate requirement to ramp up the number of beds.

Aahwahan Foundation is calling on the corporate sector and other relevant stakeholders to support our “Safety of healthcare professionals and expansion of critical health infrastructure program” to ensure safer environments for the frontline workers and patients as well as the availability of beds to win the fight against the outbreak. 

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We do have below urgent requirements. Please find the below details and do the needful.

Urgent Requirements
ITEM	Quantity	Costing
Health Kit	5000	INR 3800/- Per Kit
Testing Kit	50000	INR 350/- Per Kit
PPE KIT	20000	INR 800/- Per Kit
Oxymeter	10000	INR 2500/- Per Kit
ThermoMeter	10000	INR 2000/- Per Pc
Oxygen Concentrator	3800	INR 85000/- Per Unit
Oxygen Cylinder	1500	INR 18000/- Per Unit
BED	500	INR 50000/- Per Bed
ICU BED	50	INR 10,000,00/- Per Bed