Media Release
Mangaluru, Apr 30: Students in the city formed a team known as the Student Task Force under the leadership of the All College Students Association (R) DK district delegation.
The team helping people find hospitals, beds, oxygen supply, plasma and ambulances with the help of other organisations and various platforms. They also provide health guidance, counselling support, general health info and reach out to the patients in need via telephone. The Task Force is also active 24/7.
The team consists of 100+ medical students who are working, 100+ taluk wise volunteers and a lot of requests are received from students to work as warriors which are really appreciable.
The team taluk wise volunteers gather information and forward it to medical students in the respective departments. They help people through their guidance and awareness.
Groups of students working together gather information and send it to the verification team and then directly connect with the patients.
Also, lecturers around the district are extending their support and stated that they are happy to see their district students working efficiently to tackle it.
All college students association (R) stated that they took the initiative of the Student Task Force to create social responsibility among students by serving needy patients. COVID-19 is not a short-term pandemic, it will stay with us, thereby framing all the students for a better future.
Although the country is in bad shape right now, there is still hope of bouncing back.
ACSA urges all the students of the district as well as the state to join hands and fight against the second wave of COVID-19.