Tinder as a medium of help

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April 2021 India is under huge new wave of novel corona virus. The hospitals are lacking in equipment and staff. Around social media people are tracking down oxygen, drugs and lacking medical equipment. Government is almost helpless with occurring situation.
Sohini Chattopadhyay 30, with a group of her friends were struggling to finds donors of plasma on all sort of social medias with no results.
Chattopadhyay finally decided to use tinder to find the donors of the blood.

She and another friend of hers created profiles each on the dating service and were swiping right of anyone who looked healthy and was close to their age. they managed to find the donor with the right blood type who was willing to donate the plasma.

“I was pretty touched,” says Chattopadhyay. “What started as a desperate joke turned out to actually give us some leads, and in this case also found someone willing to donate.” 

Although a Tinder match for convalescent plasma may be a one-off success story, it represents the myriad ways India’s residents are going online to help their loved ones as the country faces around 350 000 new covid cases a day, a dramatic spike that began in early April. And without enough government action or information, ordinary citizens are turning to social media to crowdsource everything from financial help to medical equipment. They’re inundating Twitter and Instagram with requests for hospital beds, oxygen supplies, antiviral drugs, and convalescent plasma donors; they’re creating Google docs, websites, and web apps to aggregate what’s being shared and to play matchmaker between buyers and sellers. 



Reference:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/28/1023983/india-covid-crowdsourcing/

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