GIVING BACK TO HUMANITY IN COVID-19 TIMES - AN INITIAIİVE OF BMDA IN THE CITY OF VADODARA

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 3, 167 - 176, 28.03.2022

Tanveer Qureshi Nabila Qureshi

Abstract

WHO acknowledged the corona Virus (COVID-19) a situation of ‘Pandemic’ on 11th March 2020, appealing all the countries to develop the effective strategies, so as to undertake the operative measures to combat the Pandemic situation. The Indian government to address the preventive, practical strategies to combat with outpouring cases of Covid-19 in India announced a sequence of arrangements to avert entry of the virus by establishing 11 official groups on 29th March 2020 on diverse facets of COVID-19 management to take familiar declarations on the associated matters wavering from (i) medical emergency forecasting, (ii) availability of hospitals, isolation and quarantine facility, disease investigation and testing, (iii) safeguarding obtainability of important medicinal apparatus, (iv) supplementing human resource and capacity building, (v) supply chain and logistics management, (vi) synchronization and coordination with private sector, (vii) economic and welfare measures, (viii) information, communications and public awareness, (ix) technology and data management, (x) public protest and (xi) strategic matters connected to lockdown. Comprehending the necessity of the hour, and to support the governments in taking proactive measures, many voluntary organizations, non-government organisation took pro-active steps in handling the situation. The paper reflects the Commendable proactiveness, related to public health response of Novel Corona virus undertaken by Baroda Muslim Doctors Association, a Non- government organization identified by the State Education Secretary- in- charge of Covid-19 operations for the city of Vadodara who identified the organization called BMDA and approached them to help the citizens of Baroda in handling and managing the Pandemic situation.

Keywords

Covid-19, Pandemic, Publich Health, Local Government, Non-Governmental Orgenizations, BMDA (Baroda Muslim Doctors' Association

GIVING BACK TO HUMANITY IN COVID-19 TIMES - AN INITIATIVE OF BMDA IN THE CITY OF VADODARA

Abstract

WHO acknowledged the corona Virus (COVID-19) a situation of ‘Pandemic’ on 11th March 2020, appealing all the countries to develop the effective strategies, so as to undertake the operative measures to combat the Pandemic situation.
The Indian government to address the preventive, practical strategies to combat with outpouring cases of Covid-19 in India announced a sequence of arrangements to avert entry of the virus by establishing 11 official groups on 29th March 2020 on diverse facets of COVID-19 management to take familiar declarations on the associated matters wavering from (i) medical emergency forecasting, (ii) availability of hospitals, isolation and quarantine facility, disease investigation and testing, (iii) safeguarding obtainability of important medicinal apparatus, (iv) supplementing human resource and capacity building, (v) supply chain and logistics management, (vi) synchronization and coordination with private sector, (vii) economic and welfare measures, (viii) information, communications and public awareness, (ix) technology and data management, (x) public protest and (xi) strategic matters connected to lockdown.

Comprehending the necessity of the hour, and to support the governments in taking proactive measures, many voluntary organizations, non-government organisation took pro-active steps in handling the situation. The paper reflects the Commendable proactiveness, related to public health response of Novel Corona virus undertaken by Baroda Muslim Doctors Association, a Non- government organization identified by the State Education Secretary- in- charge of Covid-19 operations for the city of Vadodara who identified the organization called BMDA and approached them to help the citizens of Baroda in handling and managing the Pandemic situation.

Keywords

Public Health, Local Government, Non- Government Organizations, BMDA (Baroda Muslim Doctor’s Association), Public Health, Local Government, Non- Government Organizations, BMDA (Baroda Muslim Doctor’s Association)

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