New Delhi: At a time when Indian health infrastructure is grappling with oxygen, beds and hospitals with the second COVID wave sweeping the nation, President of Indian Youth Congress Srinivas BV has emerged as a ray of hope for millions. The Congress leader has been handling a multitude of requests from across the country to help people who are in dire need of medicines and other aid.
Srinivas has been working relentlessly round the clock to provide COVID assistance to people across the country. His Twitter timeline has been flooded with people's requests to help them and people are writing pleas on social media platforms asking for medical assistance.
Even while giving this interview, his phone was continuously ringing and he was busy helping people who were in dire need of oxygen, plasma donors and medicines.
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"We urgently need a plasma donor. The patient is critical," a lady's voice came out of the phone. "Send me the details, immediately. I'll manage. Don't worry," Srinivas replied.
While many people are thanking the Youth Congress leader by calling him a 'Messiah', he gives credit to the 'team work'.
"During these unprecedented times, the entire team of Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and its members are working hard to help people. It is teamwork. Our leader Rahul Gandhi has given clear instructions that right now we need to put aside our politics and work for the welfare of people," Srinivas said.
He added, "We have received almost 70-80 thousand phone calls till now. We are not in power. We don't have our own state government. So we just try hard to help as many people as we can."
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Srinivas also made an appeal to the people to come forward and help others, while taking care of their own health.
"People should provide help in whichever way possible. If they get to know about a COVID patient, don't dispense them. Support them morally and provide help to them. That's my request to people," he asserted.
IYC has also set up a community kitchen, aiming to distribute food to those who are working tirelessly in this pandemic but unable to arrange food for themselves. They also provide food to the migrant labourers.
"Delhi has more than 2,000 homeless migrant workers right now. Due to lockdown, small shops and restaurants have been closed. People working in Nigam Bodh Ghat and other cremation sites have also made requests to us. So, we have started supplying them meals twice a day. We are just trying that no one starves during these times," Srinivas stated.
IYC is arranging hospital beds, medicines, oxygen, and even plasma for people. They have set up a control room in Delhi for the entire management of requests and actions being taken on them.
