The NGO Jana Seva and BJP have jointly set up a 500-bed hospital in seven districts, including Belagavi, Vijayapura, Ballari, Kalaburgi and Bidar. Oxygen ventilators have been provided for emergencies. In Bengaluru, three isolation centres have been set up,” N Ravi Kumar, general secretary of the state BJP, said.
BJP state unit has taken up the ‘My Booth, Corona Free Booth’ campaign to aid people during the second wave of the pandemic.
According to N Ravikumar, call centres and care centres were functioning in around 350 places in 37 organisational districts of Karnataka.
Among the 13 services offered at such centres are providing information on hospitals and ventilators, offering ambulance service, performing last rites of victims, organising blood donation camps and awareness programmes.