COVID-19

On Friday 7th May, second round of Food provisions were provided to the villagers. Some pictures of the distribution is attached herewith.
We thank you for the encouragement and support and we will continue the work with the villagers.

Government has announced a two week lockdown since the number of cases have increased considerably. 100 staff members from vaidyagrama tested negative, and are staying inside along with over 30 patients. They are all safe.

The disease has slowly started spreading outside and hence we are careful and do not allow anyone to come inside vaidyagrama without negative report of covid 19.

We wish to bring an update about providing kashayam powder packets to 100 families in the village.

In two of the villages, around vaidyagrama, in Thirumalayampalayam panchayat namely Vazhukkal and Rangasamudram, there are 4 or 5 cases of corona reported and the elected representatives with whom we are in touch assured that they are quarantined. However they expressed a need for providing medicine packets to all families in the said villages as the villagers are scared. We are making arrangements to provide 1000 packets of kashayam for 10 days to the villages who requested support.

The process will take 3 days minimum , so we have agreed to distribute the packets on tuesday.

Thank you for your support and encouragement.

In particular, we are writing this mail to give the update about the relief work being done in Coimbatore by Punarnava Ayurveda Trust. The news is very grim in Coimbatore where every day over 4500 cases are reported and there are no rooms in hospitals and Oxygen supply is also less and hospitals have stopped taking patients.

Government hospitals have advertised for recruiting staff and every one is afraid to help or even take up the paid job although they have no work due to the lock down. Saranya Hospital ( AVP) in Navakkarai, a sister concern of Punarnava Ayurveda which is about 5 KM from Vaidyagrama has converted their 50 out of 100 beds into corona unit to support the people affected in the near by areas.

We are in touch with the elected representatives of the villages, and there are 4 or 5 cases in the entire panchayat of about 12000 people which is not bad. The affected people are also recovering well.

We have been distributing the Immunity building Kashayam ‘Shadangam’ to the villagers. 1000 families are supported by the trust till now.

We are also supporting the covid control room by providing refreshments to the 30 staff who are working round the clock to support the public during the pandemic.

We also provided 100 PPE kits, 100 Oxygen Mask, 10 Pulse oximeter to the Government Hospital Coimbatore where 1000 covid patients are fighting for their life.

We are now planning on getting more food provisions to give the affected families as well as the elders in the villages who have no means of livelihood.

We are also planning to purchase an Oxygen Concentrator for our people in the coming week.

The lock down at coimbatore is extended further for the 4th week till June 7th.

We thank the global community for the timely support given to the trust which helped us to extend our hand to the villagers and govt hospital.