While the healthcare fraternity struggles to save people from its life threatening consequences; evidence from across the globe suggests that vaccinations are one of the most potent methods to mitigate (if not prevent) the course of the disease. There are two main barriers to uptake of the COVID19: lack of access to vaccine and vaccine hesitancy. Immunize.in caters as a one-stop guide to all available information about COVID-19 vaccinations in India. The team comprises doctors, public health professionals and data analysts who work closely with health communications experts, social media specialists, medical graphic designers and medical content creators to bring the most accurate scientific information to the people in the simplest and easy to understand way.

The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has left many children orphaned and vulnerable across India. Countless children have lost both their parents, while many are merely surviving with a single parent, who is not able to support the children financially. The Digital Bharati initiative provides support to these affected students with scholarships so that they can continue their education without any hindrance. Digital Bharati brings together collaborations with some of India’s leading ed-tech platforms. On a need basis, the students would be given coupons that they can utilize to purchase educational subscriptions with our range of partnering leading ed-tech organizations. Students would also be given access to laptops and tablets to further support their learning.

Box Hospital proposes a solution to rapidly scale up COVID-19 recovery facilities by utilising existing hard infrastructures and refurbishing them to provide COVID-19 recovery facilities with 10 percent ICU beds. The facility would cater to all categories of COVID-19 patients – from moderate to severe symptoms of coronavirus. Currently, PII in association with iBihar are setting up affordable, scalable, plug and play ‘Box Hospital’ in different districts of Bihar that would serve as Covid recovery centres (Triage system). These centres would be equipped with cost-effective alternatives such as laminated corrugated cardboard beds, medicine boxes and separators, designed and manufactured by a team of experts at ANU and Sustain Labs Paris. The box hospital setup will be placed at existing hospitals and vacant government/ private buildings. The facility would be run and managed by the nursing staff and doctors of existing hospitals.

India’s unfolding COVID-19 crisis has overwhelmed hospitals, crematoriums and graveyards leading to a situation where it is not even possible to say final goodbyes to the departed, let alone perform their final rites. Prayr provides a virtual platform to assist friends and families of the deceased to organize memorial services in a virtual setting. The platform features priests to offer spiritual and religious guidance; and counselors & mental health professionals to offer counseling for the grieving families. The user-friendly platform allows the organizer to invite friends and family members of the departed soul to attend the memorial services, so they can share their thoughts and grief together.

Ensuring mental health and well-being globally, especially for frontline workers, is an ongoing challenge that has been accentuated by the novel coronavirus pandemic. MindRise is an initiative focused at addressing the problem of depleting mental health of frontline workers dealing with COVID-19 patients due to the innumerable deaths tolls surrounding them, including to deal with the emotional outbursts shared by the family of patients, the feeling of helplessness experienced due to the inability to help because of lack of resources and other factors which can have a devastating impact on the mental health of the frontline workers.