Mumbai: INDIAdonates is an organisation that raises funds for development. Founders of INDIAdonates, Dr Sanjay Patra and Sandeep Sharma felt the need to expedite processes and ensure that the country was being supported in every way within its capacity.
INDIAdonates started its intervention with 26 rural hospitals, in the last week of April 2021. So far INDIAdonates has raised Rs one Crore and has fully supported 4 hospitals and partially supported 3 rural hospitals. Simultaneously, they also were able to provide 10 Oxygen Concentrators to many other hospitals.
Besides they are also running a food Relief campaign, in 45 towns and villages, across 16 states. Through this campaign, they would be helping 5000 individuals in getting immediate dry ration kits and some hygiene products.Speaking about the overall initiative Founders of INDIAdonates, Dr Sanjay Patra and Sandeep Sharma share, “The magnitude of the wave was extremely unanticipated in rural areas. There was an impending sense of fear, both within the general rural population and also the medical team, primarily because they lacked adequate infrastructure. The more interior we got into; the more problems magnified. We did not have a particular target in mind when we started off; the idea was simply to reach out to as many people as we can. Therefore, upgrading hospital infrastructure was a good catchment area to start with, because these hospitals were serving more than 5-6 villages. Upgrading one hospital amounted to saving 100 lives, and that is exactly what we aimed for, and what we continue to do.”