RI doctors organize flight of crucial supplies to COVID-ravaged India G. Wayne Miller, The Providence Journal
Led by Kent Hospital s Drs. Forman and Thakkar, RI medical relief effort to help India
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WARWICK Laura Forman and Jinen Thakkar know intimately the suffering and deadliness of COVID. During some of the bleakest periods of the pandemic in Rhode Island, the two physicians ran the Care New England field hospital in Cranston.
Now, they have partnered to bring help to a place horrifically afflicted by coronavirus disease: India, where more than 250,000 have died and 23.3 million cases have been recorded. Together, Dr. Forman and Dr. Thakkar have organized an effort that will send desperately needed medical supplies by United Airlines cargo jet to the Asian country.
Anchor Recovery Community Center to host vaccine clinic
ANCHOR RECOVERY Community Center, a program run by The Providence Center, is hosting a COVID-19 vaccine clinic on May 11.
PROVIDENCE – A COVID-19 vaccination clinic is scheduled for May 11 at The Providence Center’s Anchor Recovery Community Center.
Organizers are hoping that the event will draw people who are in recovery from substance or alcohol abuse so that the center can resume in-person community center time, which has not been held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Providence Center’s Anchor Recovery Community Center is eager to provide members in recovery, a fast, easy, convenient way to get vaccinated, so they can feel safe returning to in-person support,” said Raina Smith, spokeswoman for Care New England, which owns The Providence Center.
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2 R.I. doctors are trying to fill a plane with supplies for India. Hereâs how you can help
On Monday, India reported about 366,000 new coronavirus infections, with about 4,000 deaths daily.
By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated May 10, 2021, 4:51 p.m.
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A patient breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurudwara, a place of worship for Sikhs, under a tent installed along the roadside amid Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic on the outskirts of New Delhi on May 10, 2021.ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images
PROVIDENCE â About a week and a half ago, Dr. Jinen Thakkar was at Kent Hospital in Warwick, visiting a patient, when he ran into Dr. Laura Forman, with whom heâd worked at the COVID-19 field hospital in Cranston.
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