As a mark of protest against the widespread violence reported from West Bengal post the declaration of Assembly election results on May 2, a total of 108 retired officials from Rajasthan, including a former Vice Chancellor and senior-ranked .
UPDATED: May 22, 2021 14:12 IST
Dr Sudhanshu Co-founder, Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur (PURUSHOTTAM DIWAKAR)
Last year, in a precautionary Covid test, all of Dr Sudhanshu’s family members tested positive for the virus. Sudhanshu himself was not tested, and as he got busy caring for them, he overlooked his own symptoms. As a result, by the time he was diagnosed, his oxygen levels had fallen, requiring longer treatment and causing more side effects than might have been expected. “That taught me a lesson,” he says, “that the earlier one begins treatment, the better.” He says this led him, toward the end of the first wave, to consider how he could help people access treatment at the earliest.
UPDATED: May 22, 2021 14:57 IST
Kavita Srivastava at a Covid care centre in Jaipur (PURUSHOTTAM DIWAKAR)
During the lockdown last year, Kavita Srivastava, whose three decades of activism have won her the respect of the state government, was a leading voice demanding aid for migrant workers trapped in cities or forced to walk back to their home states. Since last month, she has found herself in a new role using her contacts in government to arrange for hospital beds, medicines and oxygen for those in need, as well as overseeing the distribution of water, food and other resources gathered by her organisation. In the process, she has been working with a dozen other NGOs across the state.
After three persons allegedly lost their lives due to reduced oxygen pressure at the Rajasthan University for Health Services (RUHS) in Jaipur, state Health Minister Raghu Sharma formed a five-member committee to probe the incident, which on .