The second wave of Covid-19 wreaked havoc in India and
has brought suffering to mankind. In lieu to provide support to the
sufferers or Covid victims and their families, volunteers have stepped into the
ground. Some have been extending monetary help, emotional support while others
try to fetch medical assistance for a person in need, thus, playing their
part to aid the fight against contagious infection.
Now, a woman from Guwahati has offered to help the virus victim families in the best and thoughtful possible way she could do.
Ronita Krishna Sharma Rekhi has volunteered to breast feed those infants whose mothers have either been diagnosed with the infection and are in isolation or have lost the battle against Covid-19.
Rekhi, who is a mother of a two-month-old girl, has reached out public through her social media handles and has reinstated that she is ready to help by giving breast milk to the infants amid the covid crisis.
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Ronita, a celebrity and production manager based in Mumbai has 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 social media post which appealed for mother’s milk for a Delhi-based woman who was isolation after testing Covid positive.
Now, she has also urged other lactating women to come forward to join the cause to help.
Due to the second Covid wave, as many as 872 people have succumbed to the disease in Assam, including 296 in Guwahati alone.
On May 4 Rekhi took to her micro-blogging site and wrote,” Only for Guwahati as I live here. If nay newborn needs breast milk I’m here to help.”
Although Rekhi has received only one request from a mother, she is amplifying her message on different social media platforms.
“This is the least I can do at this time, help spread message,” Rekhi writes.
Notably, Rekhi’s husband is a stern supporter of his wife in providing breast milk to the infants.
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According to the medical research, a mother lactates for six months after the childbirth and produces milk surplus to fulfill her own child’s requirement if she has a single child. This factor has actually made the nursing mothers to donate milk that can be stored in the milk banks and provided to babies who have scarcity out of one or other reason.
However, in India, such milk banks are less in numbers as compared to the number of infants needing milk.