As the number of COVID-19 patients continues to grow alarmingly across the globe, the battle to arrest the spread of the disease has galvanized Coronavirus warriors across the nation. Armed with a holistic solution, Isha Outreach volunteers have initiated coordinated efforts to beat the pandemic.

Isha Outreach’s multi-pronged plan to beat the virus includes providing food, spreading awareness, supporting farmers to sell their produce, distributing protection kits among our saviours - the essential service providers - and augmenting the capacity of primary health care services.

The tailor-made COVID-19 combat plan has been designed by collating inputs from Isha Outreach’s huge network of ground support team members, government agencies, primary health centers (PHC) and community leaders.

A phase-wise implementation of the welfare programmes has already begun in several villages in the Thondamuthur block of Coimbatore.

The spirited Isha Outreach volunteers, who will be out in the field for several months, aim to vanquish the pandemic while providing succour to the people living in villages and essential service providers.

Along with threat of the pandemic, lack of livelihood and scarcity of food have emerged as two major worries for the villagers. To help them deal with this crisis, Isha Outreach volunteers are distributing food and “Nilavembu Kashayam”, a herbal health drink to improve immunity, daily.

To heighten public awareness against the pandemic and equip people to protect themselves, Isha Outreach volunteers in association with the state health department and the local police, have begun distributing informative videos and leaflets. As a part of this campaign, public announcements and posters are also being used effectively to impress upon the villagers the importance of adopting preventive measures.

In this battle against COVID-19, it is of critical importance to keep our saviours safe. To ensure the safety of our essential service providers, Isha volunteers are giving protection kits containing face masks and sanitizers to medical personnel, sanitation staff, police personnel, panchayat workers and ration shop workers in several villages. Fumigation material has also been kept ready for disinfection of villages.

The battle against COVID-19 is being waged under the aegis of Isha Outreach’s existing rural outreach program called ‘Action for Rural Rejuvenation’ (ARR) which has been delivering rural health benefits to the masses since 2003.

Initiated by Sadhguru in 2003, ARR is a pioneering social outreach campaign that seeks to transform the lives of India’s rural poor. ARR has taken a comprehensive approach to deal with complex challenges faced by rural communities by implementing a range of health, livelihood and community revitalization programs.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that causes respiratory illness with symptoms such as cough, fever, and in severe cases causes difficulty in breathing, pneumonia, and even death. The disease is now spreading rapidly across the country. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak as a pandemic and called upon countries across the globe to take immediate measures and scale up response to treat, detect and reduce transmission of the disease to save people’s lives.