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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), has initiated a drive to fight against coronavirus outbreak in the country. Join the campaign and help us reach out to the poor and vulnerable who need the urgent support.
Funds raised so far
- Sun Foundation: Donated equipment for MSF caregivers worth Rs 500,000
- Ginni Filaments Limited: Donated 500 coveralls worth Rs. 250,000
- Rotary International: Donation of equipment worth Rs 7,000,000
- Firoz Ansari for Plastometal Engineering: Donated 500 face shields worth Rs 100,000
- Reckitt Benckiser: Contributed soaps worth Rs. 10 lakh
- Rotary Club of Bombay: Donated Rs 1,000,000 for ventilators and Rs 1,000,000 for high flow oxygenators
MSF response to COVID-19 in India
Our teams in Patna, Bihar state, eastern India, have converted a sports hall to set up a 100-bed field hospital for mild to moderate COVID-19 patients, to support the Nalanda Medical College hospital. MSF teams are now providing treatment to patients in the field hospital. Community health promotion and education activities are also taking place in the area.
In Mumbai, teams are providing training on screening, triage, IPC measures, and testing. We are also establishing an appropriate referral mechanism for presumptive cases for treatment and isolation in 28 informal settlements in the city. MSF is supporting an existing fever clinic and scaling up capacity to treat mild to moderate cases of COVID-19 in an MoH-run hospital. Our teams are also carrying out health promotion, mask and soap distribution, and WASH activities in hotspots in the city’s M-east ward district.
We have opened a 24/7 mental health phone hotline in English, Hindi and Tamil, with five counsellors, who have been recruited and trained by MSF.
#UniteWithoutBorders : 2-hour telethon on NDTV
Supporters of #UniteWithoutBorders (In order of appearance)
- Shobana Kamineni, Executive Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited and Former CII President
- Dr Prince Mathew, Regional Director-Asia, MSF
- David Nabarro, WHO Director General's Special Envoy For COVID-19 Response
- Dr Christos Christou, International President, MSF
- Anu Aga, Founder-Trustee, Teach For India and Former Chairperson, Thermax Limited
- Vikramjit Singh Sahney, Chairman, Sun Foundation President, ICC Paris-India
- Baichung Bhutia, Former Captain, Indian Football team
- Dr. Unni Karunakara, Former International President, MSF and Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Institute for Global Health
- Suresh Raina, Cricketer, Indian Cricket team
- Vikram Kirloskar, Chairman and Managing Director of Kirloskar Systems Limited and Vice Chairman of Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Former President of CII
- Naina Lal Kidwai, Former Country Head and Group General Manager, HSBC India and Former President, FICCI
- Yash Jaipuria, CEO, Ginni Filaments
- Sharika Amin, MSF Psychologist
- Vidya Balan, Actor
- Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh and Founding Director, Global Health Governance Programme
- Rince Joseph, Delhi President, United Nurses Association
- Dr Abdul Samad Ansari, Director, Critical Care Services, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital
- Dr Bharat Pandya, Director, Board of Rotary International
- 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
- Kamal Sanghvi, Director, Board of Rotary International
- 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
- Shekhar Mehta, Incoming President of Rotary International
- Viswanathan Anand, Five time world chess champion and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardee
- Leena Menghaney, Regional Head, South Asia, MSF Access Campaign
- Dr Anjan Trikha, Chairman Of Clinical Managerial Group, COVID Centre, AIIMS
- Sandip Agarwalla, DGN, Rotary Club of Bombay
- Stobdan Kalon, Medical Co-ordinator, MSF COVID-19 Project, Mumbai
- Melissa McRae, Medical Director, MSF
Money raised will be used for
Essential Supply
The purchase and supply of essential technical medical equipment, such as oxygen concentrators
Personal Protective Equipment
Acquiring effective personal protective equipment (PPE) sets for MSF medics and staff
Sanitation Facilities
Improving toilets and other sanitation facilities shared among communities most affected by COVID-19
Hygiene Kits
Distributing hygiene kits of reusable face masks and soaps to vulnerable groups
Preventing COVID-19
Prevent the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable communities through health education
