Boat ambulances, disconnection focuses and that's only the tip of the iceberg: How

IDIA is supporting COVID-19 aid projects in West Bengal

Given that there are a high number of COVID-19 cases in towns where there is little
foundation and backing, IDIA has embraced various endeavours.

IDIA help
Expanding Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) has united with
associations and people to give help to those deprived in the State of West Bengal in the
midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Given that there are a high number of COVID-19 cases in towns where there is little
foundation and backing, IDIA has embraced the accompanying endeavours.

Separation focuses in towns

IDIA will set up confinement places in country territories for individuals with gentle side
effects of COVID-19. Individuals in country territories regularly don't have assets like space,
medications, and clinical hardware to self-separate. These seclusion habitats will be outfitted
with beds, medications, oximeters, thermometers, and other fundamental prerequisites.
Specialists will likewise be accessible on a video call. In any case, if the manifestations
worsen, the patients will be moved to a clinic.

Boat ambulances
In the Sundarbans, numerous far-off towns can be best gotten to through the streams. To
address the issues of these distant towns, IDIA will set up boat ambulances as at present
individuals are utilizing the public vehicles to cross waterways. These ambulances are
additionally expected to split the time taken to arrive at an emergency clinic.
The principal such rescue vehicle has been set up at Purbashripatinagar under Patharpratima
police headquarters, which is in a far-off corner of Sunderbans. It has been furnished with
prescriptions, thermometer, beat oximeters, sanitizers, mineral water, PPE packs for
chaperons and the boatman and so on IDIA desires to set up more such ambulances.

Information base of assets for West Bengal

IDIA has likewise pre-arranged an information base of assets for a specific locale of West
Bengal that will be valuable for those battling COVID-19. It tends to be gotten to here.
The information base contains leads for medical clinic beds, oxygen chambers and
concentrators, plasma/blood gift focuses, rescue vehicle administrations, Covid testing
focuses, home consideration offices, online specialist meetings, and dinner conveyance
administrations.

The leads in the data set are being checked and refreshed occasionally by a group of around
40 volunteers who are working throughout the day. IDIA has likewise set up a helpline for
those confronting any difficulty in getting to/understanding the information base. Volunteers
will be accessible on the accompanying numbers between 10:30 am to 7:30 pm:

+91 8972240058

+91 7207161695

+91 8240798829

IDIA will likewise be taking the accompanying aid projects:

• Launching COVID-19 refinement drives alongside dissemination of veils, cleansers,

and so on

• Establishing blood gift camps.

• Organizing clinical trials, including oximeter checks, at focuses in provincial West

Bengal.

One can help IDIA in its work by contributing and chipping in. To contribute, kindly visit,
https://bit.ly/idia-reaction to-covid19. For chipping in, if it's not too much trouble, write to
arnab@idialaw.org.