Support Indian frontline health workers

India's intensive care services are facing an unprecedented crisis.

By 24 May, more than 2.5 million people had been diagnosed with COVID-19, making the country the runaway global epicentre of the current pandemic.

As the number of critically ill patients has risen, intensive care capacity more than quadrupled. Through necessity many patients are receiving care from non-ICU trained health staff. This places considerable strain on them as well as risk to patients.

Help us to help India

Based in London, King's Health Partners brings together three NHS Foundation Trusts - Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley - with the world leading King's College London.

Our clinicians and academics have access to the latest insights and research in healthcare that can make all the difference to how COVID-19 patients are treated. We strongly believe we have a duty to offer healthcare staff on the frontline in India access to similar expertise for their own patients.

With your help, we can expand our hugely successful Life Lines project to enable international clinicians to connect with India's clinicians on the frontline of this unprecedented crisis to offer support.

How your donations will make a difference

We need your donations to support the setup of Indian servers for our platform, support digital licenses, and provide 4G enabled tablets to hospitals in India.

This will ensure digitally secure sharing of personal health information between international ICU trained volunteers and clinical staff working on the ground in India.

Your support will help make a real difference to Indian clinicians faced with the challenges of resources, time, workloads and the complex underlying health conditions that can add to the burden of COVID-19 in South Asian patients.

Not all of India's clinicians will have had the access, links, training or time to get up to date on the latest research, practice or solutions that the UK or other countries have developed over the past few months.

We want to enable them to access this so that they have the latest medical insight and so that they never feel alone in the fight against COVID-19.

About Life Lines

Life Lines was established in March 2020 as an ultra-rapid response to the family visiting restrictions imposed on hospitals by COVID-19 pandemic. We brought together a unique partnership of clinicians, academics, companies and charities to offer virtual visiting so that patients in intensive care units across the UK could connect with their loved ones.

To date, the project has successfully delivered more than 1,350 devices to 180 NHS hospitals, resulting in more than 100,000 virtual visits.

For more information about this inspiring initiative go to: www.kingshealthpartners.org/lifelines

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