MANGALURU: Citizens Involved in Technology Assisted Governance (CITAG), a citizens group in Bengaluru, working together towards enhanced governance in a variety of sections, started the CITAG Covid helpline portalsite, www.citagcovidhelpline.in on May 2.
Mentored from IAS officer Important Manivannan, the stage has enlarged to Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Belagavi and Hubballi-Dharwad.
Vijay Grover, president, also stated that the past year that the division of information and promotion (DIPR) joined hands with The Indian Red Cross Society, Karnataka, along with the Karnataka State Labour Institute (KSLI), in giving a platform for the volunteers to serve the entire community through the pandemic.
Moving a step forward, through CITAG, almost 120 volunteers, largely by an IT background, have joined together to start this stage which provides confirmed info on hospital beds available in hospitalsand oxygen availability, food providers and other information.
“In a panic, we frequently overlook the hospitals in our area, and also this stage provides them visibility also.
The maximum demand on the system so much was for hospital beds and oxygen,” he explained.
Meanwhile, the Vincent Pinto, treasurer, believed that the stage ought to be expanded to the coastal regions, particularly because Deepak Shenoy, who’s in-charge of Udupi district,’d volunteered annually.
Although it’s a little group, at Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, the answer is picking up.
Deepak Shenoy, mind, Udupi, and also nation volunteer coach, stated that info, particularly regarding personal hospitals and oxygen distribution, wasn’t organized in Udupi.
Just senior citizens remain in many houses in Udupi, since the younger generation reside in metros.
“Lately, a software specialist in Chennai, utilizing the information of this site, captured his parents shut.
As most kids are tech-friendly, this support has been helpful to them.
We’ve attempted to adapt just about all verticals.
Further, even a five-member group is attempting to amass mobile quantities of vaccination centers found in remote locations, included in monsoon preparedness,” he explained.
The helpline to get Hubballi- Dharwad went late in the day on Friday.
Based on Vijay Grover, growth to districts is a portion of this next wave of preparedness.
“We intend to reach out to areas in which the Covid-19 caseload is large.
In the very long term, info of districts will be on the stage,” he explained.
Dr Poornima Prabhu, Keerti Thakur and also Vincent Pinto will be the central members of this CITAG Covid helpline.