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ISWAN launches vaccination drive for Indian seafarers
In response to the second wave of COVID-19 in India, the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) has launched a ‘Vaccination Drive for Indian Seafarers’ in collaboration with Narayana Health and the Medica Group of Hospitals.
Over the last few weeks, ISWAN’s international helpline SeafarerHelp has received a significant number of calls from Indian seafarers who have shared the various challenges they and their families are facing in India due to the disastrous impact of the second wave of COVID-19. Indian seafarers have reported being unable to join vessels as they could not get vaccinated, which has resulted in increased hardship for the seafarers and their families and worries that they may lose their jobs.
Few organisations have been able to obtain vaccines from pharmaceutical companies in recent months, outside national governments and supranational institutions.
Earlier this year, the International Chamber of Shipping was looking to buy up to one million vaccine jabs via the Covax programme, co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO). But it failed to make inroads.
Chirag Bahri, ISWAN’s director of regions (India), said his organisation pulled off the trick by working with the private hospitals that procured vaccines directly from local manufacturers in India.
“It is our duty to keep exploring possibilities in ways we can try to assist our seafarers and their families undergoing tremendous hardships due to the Covid-19 situation in the country, which is unimaginable,” he said.
The Covid situation in Calcutta is more than overwhelming.
A maximum number of posts on social media are either about someone looking for urgent oxygen supply, crucial medicines or someone feeling helpless due to an acute shortage of hospital beds. On Friday, Bengal recorded the highest single-day spike of 19, 216 Covid cases.
As we battle the ongoing Covid crisis, both individually and collectively, private hospitals in Kolkata are putting their best foot forward.
Desun Hospital has taken the initiative to set up satellite centres to treat mild and asymptomatic patients. “Our initiative aims to provide a 24x7 medical care facility to help such patients recover under the guidance of Desun’s medical team while under isolation treatment in a safe, home-like environment,” a spokesperson from the hospital said.