Individuals step in to help COVID patients, relatives Updated: Updated: Help pours in to provide food, medicines, arranging convalescent plasma, and transporting dead bodies Share Article Help pours in to provide food, medicines, arranging convalescent plasma, and transporting dead bodies As the SARS-CoV2 virus and its mutants rampage through the country creating medical and social havoc, citizens’ groups have stepped in to help patients and their relatives. The help ranges from resources for scarce medicines, food for quarantined families, arranging convalescent plasma, and transporting dead bodies, to weeding out fake helplines, and sometimes as simple as running household errands. “If you live in and around Khairatabad, are in isolation and need someone to run errands for you, reach out to me. Will be happy to help,” tweeted Rikit Shahi, a law student, and his timeline is an experience in the helpless chaos that has engulfed the city and the country.