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As cries for help from India increase on social media, Srinivas BV is helping thousands each day (IYC)
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hen Mahua Rai Chaudhary found out her 80-year-old father’s oxygen levels were dipping below 85 – a level of above 95 is considered normal – she made frantic calls to every hospital in the national capital, government helplines, and oxygen vendors. But after hours of trying, all she encountered were busy lines and scammers ready to dupe her.
However, like thousands of Indians, what worked for her is a request for help on social media. And in what she repeatedly describes as a “divine intervention”, her father received an oxygen cylinder within hours, as her post reached Srinivas BV, head of the youth wing of India’s opposition party Congress, who has been running an assistance campaign in the country as India’s healthcare system shatters.