Amid our fight to providing urgent COVID-19 assistance, we’re delighted to share some good news! GPM operates in rural tribal areas and since the COVID-19 outbreak and we have been helping a rural hospital in Dahanu, in western Maharashtra. The Dahanu hospital’s first corona-virus patient, a three-year-old girl called Priya, has been released in good health after a full recovery! It’s absolutely heartwarming to see the Priya with her parents receiving the COVID-19 recovery
certificate alongside her doctors. This is an encouraging story that shows us why we need to continue to fight a virus which threatens to ravage the health and livelihoods of low-resource communities in India.
Many rural hospitals lack the tools needed to look after their vulnerable communities, however with GPM’s support, this hospital is now better prepared to combat COVID-19’s deadly impact.
GPM provided the medical staff with essential equipment and installed basic hygiene facilities to reduce the spread of the corona virus within the fragile hospital population. Our work in the community has a profound impact, and with your help this little girl can be the first of many walking healthy out the hospital door to return to their family.
Below is a rundown of the essential, life-saving measures introduced at the hospital in Dahanu by GPM:
• Building hand-washing stations: We’ve installed a designated hand washing station with seven faucets which is now used before any person enters the hospital.
• Preventing the spread of COVID19: GPM has provided 25 liters of hand sanitizer and 250 bars of soap to ensure that the hospital is able to provide the most basic protection.
• Meals for medical staff: Every day we’re providing freshly-cooked meals for overworked doctors, nurses and medical support staff (our team's currently cooked up 800 meals!). These medical staff are at the front-lines of the fight against COVID-19!
• Protecting medical staff: GPM's women's sewing collective, Tribal Threads, has sewed thousands of washable cloth face-masks to ensure that doctors and nurses at hospitals have basic personal protective equipment (150 masks were given to the hospital in Dahanu).
• Informing the community: We’ve created posters and flyers and displayed key information about COVID-19 outside the hospitals, and throughout the villages and slums, to encourage local people to adopt good habits and reduce their risk of infection.
We are grateful to the hundreds of people who are donating to this cause and to the organizations that are funding this campaign alongside our life-saving nutrition program for starving families. Much thanks go to The Good People Fund, OLAM, The Estelle Friedman Gervis Family Foundation, Sundara Fund and others.
You can donate here to this emergency COVID-19 response fund: https://rootfunding.com/campaigns/gpm_corona_virus_campaign
Many rural hospitals lack the tools needed to look after their vulnerable communities, however with GPM’s support, this hospital is now better prepared to combat COVID-19’s deadly impact.
GPM provided the medical staff with essential equipment and installed basic hygiene facilities to reduce the spread of the corona virus within the fragile hospital population. Our work in the community has a profound impact, and with your help this little girl can be the first of many walking healthy out the hospital door to return to their family.
Below is a rundown of the essential, life-saving measures introduced at the hospital in Dahanu by GPM:
• Building hand-washing stations: We’ve installed a designated hand washing station with seven faucets which is now used before any person enters the hospital.
• Preventing the spread of COVID19: GPM has provided 25 liters of hand sanitizer and 250 bars of soap to ensure that the hospital is able to provide the most basic protection.
• Meals for medical staff: Every day we’re providing freshly-cooked meals for overworked doctors, nurses and medical support staff (our team's currently cooked up 800 meals!). These medical staff are at the front-lines of the fight against COVID-19!
• Protecting medical staff: GPM's women's sewing collective, Tribal Threads, has sewed thousands of washable cloth face-masks to ensure that doctors and nurses at hospitals have basic personal protective equipment (150 masks were given to the hospital in Dahanu).
• Informing the community: We’ve created posters and flyers and displayed key information about COVID-19 outside the hospitals, and throughout the villages and slums, to encourage local people to adopt good habits and reduce their risk of infection.
We are grateful to the hundreds of people who are donating to this cause and to the organizations that are funding this campaign alongside our life-saving nutrition program for starving families. Much thanks go to The Good People Fund, OLAM, The Estelle Friedman Gervis Family Foundation, Sundara Fund and others.
You can donate here to this emergency COVID-19 response fund: https://rootfunding.com/campaigns/gpm_corona_virus_campaign
