The second wave of Covid-19 wreaked havoc in India andhas brought suffering to mankind. In lieu to provide support to thesufferers or Covid victims and their families, volunteers have stepped into theground. Some have been extending monetary help, emotional support while otherstry to fetch medical assistance for a person in need, thus, playing theirpart to aid the fight against contagious infection.
Now, a woman from Guwahati has offered to help the virusvictim families in the best and thoughtful possible way she could do.
Ronita Krishna Sharma Rekhi has volunteered to breastfeed those infants whose mothers have either been diagnosed with the infection andare in isolation or have lost the battle against Covid-19.
Rekhi, who is a mother of a two-month-old girl, has reachedout public through her social media handles and has reinstated that she isready to help by giving breast milk to the infants amid the covid crisis.
Ronita, a celebrity and production manager based in Mumbaihas returned to her hometown Guwahati, where she gave birth to her girl child-Alaya, on March 10.
The rationale behind this thought of Rekhi is a socialmedia post which appealed for mother’s milk for a Delhi-based woman who wasisolation after testing Covid positive.
Now, she has also urged other lactating women to comeforward to join the cause to help.
Due to the second Covid wave, as many as 872 people havesuccumbed to the disease in Assam, including 296 in Guwahati alone.
On May 4 Rekhi took to her micro-blogging site and wrote,” Onlyfor Guwahati as I live here. If nay newborn needs breast milk I’m here tohelp.”
Although Rekhi has received only one request from amother, she is amplifying her message on different social media platforms.
“This is the least I can do at this time, help spreadmessage,” Rekhi writes.
Notably, Rekhi’s husband is a stern supporter of his wifein providing breast milk to the infants.
According to the medical research, a mother lactates forsix months after the childbirth and produces milk surplus to fulfill her ownchild’s requirement if she has a single child. This factor has actually madethe nursing mothers to donate milk that can be stored in the milk banks andprovided to babies who have scarcity out of one or other reason.
However, in India, such milk banks are less in numbers ascompared to the number of infants needing milk.