Tata Trusts Health Advisories
To help access ratified information, make informed decisions about vaccines, and adopt COVID-appropriate behaviour to safeguard ourselves and our loved ones, the Tata Trusts are publishing Health advisories on an ongoing basis.
The advisories cover a wide range of topics — preventive measures to avoid infection, guidelines to be followed if infected, information about virus mutations, importance of vaccination, vaccines and their effectiveness, and so on — and have helped members of the Tata Trusts' family stay calm, aware and safe in these difficult times.
Read the advisories here.
Also available in Hindi; click here to read
The health advisories are issued in public interest, and are as per the guidelines of the Government of India. For more information, visit the website of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India www.mohfw.gov.in
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Supporting the elderlies
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Flattening the Covid-19 curve, the Nagpur way
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Tata Trusts joins the Telangana government’s battle against Covid
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Making communities aware of safe behaviours
Right knowledge is the first step in building resilience amongst our communities. Recognising this, Tata Trusts have begun a pan-India community outreach to induce adoption of health practices in rural areas to prevent the spread of Covid. The exercise is expected to have reached about 12 million people in 21 states.
This communications effort encourages healthy practices such as hand hygiene, social distancing, breathing etiquette, along with identifying early signs of the disease. A campaign called ‘5 kadam, Corona Muktjeevan’ (5 steps for safety) has been created to motivate communities to adopt safer behaviours.
The campaign has developed 300 audio files and videos in several languages, including Assamese, Garhwali, Dongri, Kumaoni, Ladakhi, Garhwali, Santhali, Mundari, Kutchi (Gujarat) and Koborok (Tripura). Over 70 celebrities have stepped up to participate in the campaign including Nana Patekar and Sonali Kulkarni in Marathi, Parthasarthy in Telegu and Malini Awasthi in Hindi. (The video playlist is available for deployment by any organisation and can be viewed here.)
Over 430 master trainers from our regional teams have been trained to take this campaign further. These trainers have trained 8,700 community resource persons in 21 states. Currently, this network has reached out to 8,000 villages.
Platforms like Gram Vaani and TCS mKrishi have been used to start the initiative via voice and SMS in Punjab, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana covering 440,000 households to date. This will be scaled up ten-fold in the coming days.
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Procurement of PPE
Tata Trusts have procured tonnes of PPE for the safety of frontline healthcare workers. The material — coveralls, gloves, N95 and K95 masks — has landed in India and will be distributed among hospitals in over 20 states shortly. The Trusts sourced the material from FDA-approved suppliers in China. The Tata ecosystem stepped up to support the effort: Tata International provided import and customs expertise, Voltas provided a 100,000 sq ft warehouse in Pune and Trent is overseeing warehouse management.
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Strengthening community outreach
In Madhya Pradesh, 16 members of the NCD screening team have been trained to support the 104 and 181 health helplines. The team has fielded 1,300 calls, pacified anxieties, counselled people under quarantine and guided ill patients to the nearest health facilities.
The Elder Spring senior citizen helpline in Telangana is counselling senior citizens, helping over 100 senior citizens in need get deliveries of groceries and medicines, and ensuring requests for groceries and essential items at 56 old age homes across the state are passed on to the government.
In Nagpur, Maharashtra, the Model Urban Primary Health Center programme has quickly taken on the responsibility for Covid response. More than 330 frontline workers have been trained who have cascaded the training to over 2,000 workers. The response centre has handled over 1,800 calls and screened 500,000 people as per the community based process.
The Tata Trusts along with committed local and global partners as well as the government to fight this crisis on a united public health collaboration platform which will strive to reach out to sections that are underprivileged and deprived.
*Figures on this page were updated on 16 April 2020.
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Empowering students and teachers in the pandemic
Providing students with free access to high-quality learning materials in their preferred language