India is witnessing an unprecedented rise in COVID-19 cases almost every day. It is clearly a mentally and exhausting time for all of us. 

Doctors across India are battling hard in their personal and professional lives in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic. Health care workers and hospitals are under immense pressure and stress, wrestling with a widespread shortage of beds, oxygen, and ventilators as the devastating second wave of COVID-19 has wrecked the country. They put their patients’ lives above everyone, sometimes even above their family. 

To ease the tension, tackle stress, and keep mental health in check, many hospitals and doctors go beyond helping the patients by spreading joy to the patients. Healthcare workers from many cities are spreading positivity and joy to the patients affected by COVID-19.

Hospitals cheers for COVID-19 patients in Uttar Pradesh

For example, a hospital in the Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh enlightened everyone by approaching this very crisis on a positive note. Kanpur’s Krishna Hospital gave a warm-send off to COVID-19 survivors.

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The discharged patients were sent home with garlands wrapped around their necks as frontline workers cheered them with loud applause. 

Need of the hour dance by Healthline workers in Punjab

Doctors are under constant pressure at the hospitals as COVID-19 cases are increasing day by day. They are at their toes all day long assisting one patient to another. To keep their mental stress under control,doctors dance to cheer up COVID-19 patients in Bathinda (Punjab) to a Punjabi song along with the patients.  

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The doctors were seen dancing in PPE kits. All the patients and doctors started dancing together, to keep the strength, to show everyone is together in this. 

Dancing to the wedding tunes by an ambulance driver in Uttarakhand

Ambulance drivers are under immense stress after carrying COVID-positive patients in and out of hospitals. An ambulance driver from Uttarakhand danced along with a wedding procession wearing a PPE kit.

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The driver started dancing to the tunes as a wedding procession passed in front of the hospital he works for. He could not stop himself from joining the baraath (wedding procession) and felt somewhat relieved after dancing. 

Celebrating a patient’s birthday in Gujarat

Despite working long hours and giving their services, doctors also go the extra mile to cheers the patients and raise the spirit of the patients suffering from COVID-19. A healthcare worker dance to “Tum Jiyo Hazaro Saal” to celebrate a patient’s birthday at Gujarat hospital. 

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Several healthcare workers and patients cheered as a worker took a break from their hectic schedule to celebrate the patient’s birthday. 

What adds to the agony of COVID-19 is the level of helplessness a person experiences — with no resources available around, people suffer to the extent that is unexplainable.

Be it a COVID-19 patient or a frontline worker, or someone low on finances — the unavailability of resources, particularly food, is one of the major sufferings right now.

Several people have come forward to fight this and are offering free meals to needy and COVID-19 patients in their locations. Here are some of those good samaritans NextBigWhat salutes to!

‘Food for Kashmir’ by ‘Tiffin Aaw’

When Rayees Ahmad, co-founder, ‘Tiffin Aaw’, started getting calls from people outside Kashmir requesting to deliver food to their COVID-19 positive parents, the food entrepreneur decided to start this campaign, ‘Food for Kashmir’.

“We are a small startup, and it’s just been a year. People are calling us; we are giving food to people without asking for money. And among those people only, some get so emotional and tell us that they want to sponsor other COVID-19 positive family’s or patients,” said the co-founder, Nida Rayees.

The husband-wife duo delivers home-cooked meals to needy and COVID-19 patients, their families, and COVID-19 warriors for free. They have decided to keep this initiative going till the pandemic is not over.

Nisha Bhagat — The superwoman from Ranchi

This tribal woman running her own cafe in Ranchi decided to convert her business into service for the families suffering from COVID-19. She offers breakfast and meals to needy and COVID-19 patients for free.

It all began when Nisha got a call from a woman asking for home-cooked and deliverable ‘khichdi’. “She was ready to pay whatever…I was a bit surprised because people generally don’t order that simple food over the phone. Then the caller told me the sad part; everyone in that family had turned COVID-19 positive, and none of them was physically fit enough to cook food. I took the order and sent it out. That set me thinking why not provide free food to such families,” she said.

Nisha takes extra care of nutrition and cleanliness while preparing the meals and ensures that no one is denied food by her.

‘Covid Meals For India’ by Chef Saransh Goila

When the Goila Butter Chicken (GBC) founder received a DM on Instagram to help a girl with organising her meals who had lost her immediate family to Covid-19, it struck him hard.

“It’s heartbreaking. When you are stressed about finding hospital beds or oxygen for your near and dear ones or even grieving deaths in families, the last thing you want to worry about is what am I going to eat. There was a big gap here, and I knew I had to step in,” said Goila.

Along with the co-founder of Fastor, Karan Sood, he launched covidmealsforindia.com on April 25, 2021, to ensure that none of the affected or needy families sleeps empty stomach. The portal connects COVID-19 affected individuals with those willing to cook a meal for them for either free or nominal costs.

‘Feed The Poor’ by D Surender Babu

“We often neglect the people who live in rural areas during the time of crisis. The fact is that they are the ones who are most affected. People affected by coronavirus in villages do not have enough financial support, so I decided to provide them with minimal facilities. People can check out feedthepoor.in and then fill in their details as to what they want to donate,” said the Hyderabad man.

He runs the web portal, ‘Feed The Poor’, to aid people in the rural areas by providing food and medicines. He and his team often rely on donations to fight the crisis.

The superwomen of Patna

Anupama Singh and her sister Neelima, along with their mother, Kundan Devi, are becoming the messiahs for those infected in the city. While Anupama and her mother cook at home, sister Neelima ensures safe delivery to COVID-19 affected families. 

“Recently, a member of my family tested positive for the virus. We realised how it is difficult for virus-infected people to get meals while living in self-isolation. Hence, we started serving free food packets to the homes of coronavirus-infected patients living in self-isolation as a service to humanity at our own cost,” said Anupama. “We have dedicated all our savings, which were kept for marriage, anniversaries, birthday functions, purchasing clothes and doing other household work for the next one year, to continue serving free foods to the COVID-19 patients.”

Yes, the fight is long, but people are fighting — and ensuring that no one faces it alone. NextBigWhat salutes these less known heroes! #CovidWarriors

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