Indian medical students abroad join forces to help peers stranded in war-torn Ukraine
India Today
Indian medical students studying in China, Uzbekistan and Philippines have come together to help their peers stuck in war-torn Ukraine. They are using social media to coordinate volunteer efforts.
Need a cab for four people in Kyiv. Do we know someone in Poland who can drop food packets at the border? A group is starting from Kharkiv, any updates on trains?
Thousands of such messages keep pouring in WhatsApp, Telegram and social media groups created by Indian medical students abroad who have volunteered to help their peers stranded in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
The volunteering students are studying in China, Uzbekistan and Philippines. While many of them are helping from their university campuses, the others are those who had returned to India in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and are attending online classes.
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As soon as the news of Indian students being stranded in war-hit Ukraine spread, these volunteers sprung into action.
"We were connected with some of the medical students in different countries since we went to coaching institutions together before leaving India.
"We also had multiple groups on Whatsapp and Telegram to exchange updates, notes and other information on Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which we are supposed to write to practice in India," P Sharma, a student of China's Harbin Medical University, told PTI.
