COVID-19 remains a health emergency and a deadly threat, especially to the most vulnerable. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been responding to the global pandemic since it began. MSF doctors and nurses are treating patients and supporting communities across Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), in collaboration with the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an independent medical organisation, has initiated a drive to help medical caregivers in their fight against coronavirus outbreak in the country.
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Highlights of #UniteWithoutBorders Telethon: Help Protect Our Medical Caregivers In The Fight Against Coronavirus
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), in collaboration with the MSF, an independent medical organisation, has initiated a drive to protect medical caregivers in their fight against coronavirus outbreak.
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Updated : June 29, 2020 12:29 am IST
Jun 29, 2020 00:19 (IST)
The Telethon ended with this hymn of hope composed by Raghu Dixit that wishes for happiness for the whole world and its people
Jun 28, 2020 23:18 (IST)
Over Rs 1.2 crore raised for the protection of medical caregivers at the end of the 2-hour telethon. Thank you, donors
Keep your donations. Know more about how to donate and what your contributions will be used for: https://special.ndtv.com/unite-without-borders-73/donate-now
Keep your donations. Know more about how to donate and what your contributions will be used for: https://special.ndtv.com/unite-without-borders-73/donate-now
Jun 28, 2020 23:13 (IST)
Melissa McRae, Medical Director, MSF explains how this pandemic and its scale is different from what MSF has tackled before in terms of outbreaks like Ebola
Jun 28, 2020 23:03 (IST)
Thank you donors: Firoz Ansari pledges support to the #UniteWithoutBorders Telethon with 500 face shields worth Rs 1 lakh on behalf of Plastometal Engineering, manufacturers of reusable and environment-friendly face shields
To donate and help protect our medical caregivers in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic,click here.
To donate and help protect our medical caregivers in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic,click here.
Jun 28, 2020 23:00 (IST)
The national program has been quite severely impacted, continuity of care is a challenge: Dr Stobdan Kalon, Medical Co-ordinator, MSF COVID-19 Project, Mumbai
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Jun 28, 2020 22:52 (IST)
Sandip Agarwalla of Rotary Club of Bombay, donates Rs 10 lakh for ventilators and Rs 10 lakh for high flow oxygenators
Jun 28, 2020 22:46 (IST)
The position is much better, earlier hospitals faced issues on the PPE front but we are comfortable now: Dr Anjan Trikha, Chairman Of Clinical Managerial Group, COVID Centre, AIIMS
Jun 28, 2020 22:39 (IST)
Leena Menghaney, MSF Access Campaign on how the real test of the COVID vaccine will be about access
We have many initiatives and lots of good minds and institutions who are working together to make a vaccine. The vaccine initiatives will be tested in their ability to provide access to these vaccines to the most needy. We will have to live with COVID for sometime. We need to ensure, when the vaccine comes, the poor and the vulnerable have access to the vaccine.
Jun 28, 2020 22:33 (IST)
I have started to miss human contact and the ability to do all sorts of normal things: Viswanathan Anand, Five time world chess champion and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardee
Jun 28, 2020 22:26 (IST)
Shekhar Mehta, Incoming President of Rotary International announces donation of Rs 70 lakh worth of equipment for MSF on the #UniteWithoutBorders telethon
Jun 28, 2020 22:23 (IST)
It is critical to keep our healthcare workers safe: Prof Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute
Jun 28, 2020 22:17 (IST)
Kamal Sanghvi, Director, Board of Rotary International on the Coronavirus challenge in Bihar
There's a surge in Bihar due to the return of migrant workers. MSF is creating COVID facilities in the state to look after critical cases. We want to help MSF with anything they need like PPE, ventilators. It is the responsibility of every citizen to help end this pandemic as soon as possible.
Jun 28, 2020 22:10 (IST)
Sadly, this is not the last such pandemic, the world is likely to see more: Dr. Arvind Kumar, Chairman, Centre for Chest Surgery and Chest Onco-Surgery and Director, Institute of Robotic Surgery at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
Jun 28, 2020 22:04 (IST)
COVID has created a new set of untouchables: Dr Bal Inamdar, Past District Governor
People are scared to go to doctors for their problems. This is not good. It is very important to not see doctors like that, we need to visit doctors and we can go to non-COVID hospitals.
Jun 28, 2020 21:57 (IST)
Dr Bharat Pandya, Director, Board of Rotary International on the #UnitedWithoutBorders telethon:
Important to realise two things - medical science is a science, outcome may not always be the same and answers may differ. Secondly, we can't have stigma around COVID. We need to treat our healthcare workers with respect.
Jun 28, 2020 21:47 (IST)
We are seeing a paradigm shift in age group severely affected, earlier people in their 30s were not critical, now that is not the case: Dr Abdul Samad Ansari, Director, Critical Care Services, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital
Jun 28, 2020 21:41 (IST)
Rince Joseph, Delhi President, United Nurses Association on their concerns in combating the pandemic:
Our need is and we approached the Supreme Court also, we need quarantine facility for healthcare workers. They become a carrier and they are putting their families at risk. So we need to provide them quarantine facility, specially nurses. We also need to provide them PPE kits. The PPE kits we are getting are not of best quality. many healthcare workers have to be in quarantine for 15 days in a month and they get half their salary, which is very difficult for them. We need to protect healthcare workers.
Jun 28, 2020 21:31 (IST)
Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh and Founding Director, Global Health Governance Programme:
Jun 28, 2020 20:55 (IST)
Vidya Balan on the #UniteWithoutBorders telethon:
Jun 28, 2020 20:49 (IST)
Sharika Amin, MSF Psychologist on the importance of mental health during a pandemic:
I feel the first step to cope with the situation is to stop fighting the situation. Acceptance is key here and what else works is to actually connect and share support for your loved ones, family, friends. And it is a very effective strategy. To combat fear, as you asked and which is very common in everyone including us, is to remember to do what we can manage. Our focus should be more on prevention and on what is in our control. And I think one very effective strategy for that is actually having a schedule, a routine that gives a sense of purpose to our day.
I am really proud to say that MSF and the entire organisation is dedicated to the cause and to help people and make their lives better. In the project that I'm working in that is in Kashmir, we started a helpline since the lockdown period started for people, who were suffering from emotional distress or any mental health issue that they could freely discuss through our toll-free number. And they could avail these services for free. I think that was an initiative that did make a difference to the community and continues to do so.
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