Fundació privada ADA Món Adivasi

It is just three weeks ago that we started the campaign to support Maharashtra Prabodhan Seva Mandal (MPSM) Covid Mobile Unit in Nashik and since then things have changed a lot.

The pandemic in India appears to have reached its peak, but experts predict that this peak will continue for some time. The confinement decreed by each of the Indian states has had its effect. However, the cases of mucormycosis - a rare fungal disease with a high mortality rate that is affecting Covid patients in the weeks after their recovery, are growing.

The tv news showed us corpses in the Ganges, since many humble families cannot afford the wood to incinerate their loved ones.

Meanwhile, international support campaigns have sent medicines, oxygen and reaggents for vaccines, mainly to the big cities.. Once again rural India lags behind.

Hence, in the last week a third Covid Mobile Unit has been launched in Trimbakeshwar, about 30 km from Nashik; area well known for its important temple that venerates Lord Shiva. This rural area seems to have been very affected by the Covid and for this reason MPSM decided to get down to work with a mobile unit there.

In the last 20 days, the Nashik and Ambatha Mobile Units have treated more than 1,100 people of which 23.7% have presented symptoms highly suggestive of Covid. Since, as we explained previously, the MPSM does not have access to diagnostic tests, any person with a high suspicion of having Covid (fever, loss of taste, smell) is provided with a medicine kit and is recommended to go into isolation.

Meanwhile your donations and your support continues and as of May 20 we have 19,209 Euros.

Therefore, from Nashik, Ambatha, Trimbakeshwat and also from ADA-Mòn Adivasi we want to thank you again.