Mumbai Couple Puts Leftover Covid Medicines To Good Use

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Do you have medicines left over for treating Covid-19 symptoms? This doctor couple in Mumbai has created a system to redistribute them to areas in need.  Meds For More

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00:00Started so small and it just snowballed into something, it's been a roller coaster ride

00:17from the beginning till now.

00:39During the

01:04first wave of the pandemic, I was actually a frontline medical volunteer and I was working

01:11with the BMC in slums in the city where we live which is Mumbai in India and that gave me a very

01:18uphand first-hand experience of the devastation that people are going through both in terms of

01:24their lives and their livelihoods. A few weeks ago, we had a member of our house staff, his son

01:32fell ill with COVID. He was tested positive on the RT-PCR and he called and he said,

01:38sir, can I bring the reports? Can I show it to you? I said, of course, bring it.

01:42And then whilst he was on his way, I was mentioning to Raina that actually,

01:46what can we do to help because medicines are pretty expensive, particularly the antivirals.

01:51So at that moment, I suddenly remembered that actually in the building that we live,

01:55our apartment block, there were three patients that I've been treating

01:59just recently, all of whom had just come out of that COVID isolation phase.

02:03So I put a message on the building group and I said, guys, folks, can you just send me whatever

02:07leftover meds you have and then I'll just see what we have. I'll put it together and if it's

02:12okay, then I'll send it, I'll give it to the person who's coming to see me.

02:16Everyone just resonated with the idea and I think

02:43it was a very small way for people to make a difference. It was something that they felt

02:48they could easily replicate in their own neighborhoods, in their own buildings. It's

02:53been amazing.

03:23Even if work ends at the end of this particular wave,

03:37I think that seed of imagination and creativity, which is now being unleashed

03:43and the recognition that each small act of kindness can lead to this collective wave

03:49of positive impact, then that in itself is a legacy worth remembering.

03:55Absolutely.

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