Support During COVID-19.
Initiatives > Support During COVID-19.
During the peak of COVID-19 crisis, the foundation played a pivotal role in combating the pandemic by supporting public healthcare systems and providing critical relief. It collaborated with state governments to set up essential healthcare infrastructure, including Oxygen plants and quarantine centers, while supplying vital medical equipment and resources. THF also distributed hygiene kits, masks, and household essentials to affected communities. Additionally, the Foundation extended support to migrant workers, providing food and basic necessities, demonstrating its commitment to saving lives and strengthening resilience during the pandemic.
Setting up Oxygen Plants
The Hans Foundation has successfully set up Oxygen plants in UP, Jharkhand and Nagaland in collaboration with the respective state governments. These Oxygen Plants have been essential not only for the response to the pandemic but as part of strengthening the permanent public healthcare infrastructure at the state level.
Strengthening the Public COVID Response by various State Governments
During the peak of the pandemic, the Foundation worked in coordination with multiple state governments to ensure infrastructure to handle the increasing number of COVID patients. In Uttarakhand, the Hans Foundation supported setting up 135 quarantine centres that could accommodate up to 10,000 people. Besides this, the foundation assisted various state governments by providing a total number of 2,650 Oxygen concentrators, 5200 medical bedding sets and 1000 Oxygen flowmeters in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Nagaland, Karnataka, Jharkhand and Odisha.
Distribution of Masks, Sanitation Kits, and Household Essentials
Working with governments, through grassroots partners and via own field staff, the Hans Foundation distributed more than 50,000 hygiene and sanitation kits, around 1,50,000 masks, gloves, face shields and 7000 litres of hand sanitiser in Delhi, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh during the peak of the crisis. Additionally, when the migrants started travelling back to their villages barefoot and hungry, THF along with its partners across India briskly moved into collaborative actions with the local authorities to deliver rations and other necessary commodities on large scale.
