Philly Indian community uses ties back home to send COVID aid
WHYY By Dr. Shubha Varma and her husband perform a surgery together on a medical mission in the Dominican Republic. (Courtesy of Dr. Shubha Varma) Lakshmi Iyer feels like she’s caught between two worlds. The 45-year-old financial service worker lives in Exton with her family, and has been watching with horror as COVID-19 cases have surged in her home country of India. Her Twitter feed is full of people back home begging for oxygen, searching for open hospital beds, or trying to secure remdesivir, Theraflu or other treatment drugs in short supply for sick loved ones. Entire families she know...
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