THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : For those confined to their home interiors following heightened Covid-19 vigilance, DYFI opened control room titled “Njangal Und Koode(We Are With You)”, to reach essential commodities including medicines at doorstep and also offer other help where necessary.
If one is faced with no food, medicines or grocery at home or has no one to help with some other essential errand, the person may call Control Room from any part of the State. Emergency workers will then respond with aid in tte shortest time possible.Six members form part of the Control Eoom at state-level. The numbers are :
9895858666, 9895868666, 8590025849.
8590011044, 8590018240, 7012215574
When a call is received at Control Room, the caller's requirment is jottd down and ransmitted to respective District Group. A District Group comprises five members and has been formed in districts statewide. The information from there is funnelled to concerned Response Team for actual deliveries. A Response Team too comprises five members and operates at Block level. .
People being quarantined, those with wrecked livelihoods , people unable to return to their workplaces abroad, those facing financial distress, children and students whose socializing avenues have been cut off, people with little or no income, have all become vulnerable to mental stress as well, said DYFI state secretary AA Rahim.
It then becomes our responsibility to ease their emotional distress using resources including technology – the reason why DYFI decided to come out with its Control Room strategy, Rahim said. Calling any of the six numbers will do. Services of expert psychologists and therapists too will be made available to those who who seek them.
It is the first time we are faced with a crisis of this nature and magnitude . Hence mental wellbeing is crucial to overcome the scenario, said Rahim.
