'Doctors on Wheels' Make Covid Healthcare Accessible For Rural India

A startup called DoctCo, the Lung Care Foundation and the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee came together for this initiative

In an unique effort to provide medical facilities for Covid patients in rural areas, three organisations came together at Delhi's Bangla Sahib Gurudwara Saturday to launch the 'Doctors on Wheels' service. 'Doctors on Wheels' is a bus that will travel to villages in western Uttar Pradesh over the next three months to provide free medical consultations and medicines for Covid patients. There will be one doctor and two paramedics onboard, and the bus aims to cover a massive 10 lakh people every month. A startup called DoctCo, the Lung Care Foundation and the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee came together for this initiative. "We will be helping out by replenishing medical supplies and assisting them with any other need. It is a humongous task to cover so many villages and reach out to lakhs of people but the Gurudwara Committee has always been at the forefront in helping people in this pandemic and we will continue to do so," Harmeet Singh Kalka, the committee's General Secretary, said.