Together We Can via MDhelponline.com
“I was in India till very recently and saw the covid crisis unfolding in front of my own eyes. The pain everyone was going through was unbearable. We tried to bring people together to donate some oxygen concentrators. But in our hearts, that was not enough. We knew we could do more.” says Dr. Ashish Gupta, MD, co-founder of MDhelponline.com.
“Watching COVID creep into the homes of our friends and families in India was heartbreaking. We left our country, but our hearts beat for our motherland. Being a physician from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, I have seen suffering very closely. But thinking of our own people getting so gravely affected by COVID was so much more devastating. MD help online is more like our calling and has now become our passion.”: says Dr. Akanksha Gupta, MD, co-founder of MDHelpOnline.com.
MDhelponline.com is a website created to give free COVID and Non-COVID medical advice by expert doctors of the USA and India, exclusively to Indian patients during COVID times.
“We wanted to penetrate to rural areas with limited medical help. Hence, we also started a Telegram group and added a feature of being able to reply in all languages via both Telegram and website. We started with a few of our expert physician colleagues, and now we have almost 70 doctors both from the US and India covering most specialties, including physicians trained at very prestigious places like Harvard, Brown, and Yale” says Dr. Ashish Gupta, who was himself trained at Brown University.
These physicians give medical advice on chats via website and direct messages via Telegram. They also give appointments for direct phone consultation and talk to patients and their relatives.
MD Help Online has expert physician volunteers from the USA, like
Dr. Ekta Bansal Kohli(Infectious disease specialist ),
Dr. Shrivatsa Nadiger(Cardiologist),
Dr. Saurabh Rajpal ( Pulmonologist and Critical care expert),
Dr. Nitesh Jain ( Critical care specialist)
Dr. Raj Karnatak( Pediatric critical care physicians)
Dr. Prashant Jha and Dr. Mukul Sehgal,(Radiologist )
Dr. Rajul Pandya (Interventional
Neurologist )
Dr. Priyank Khandelwal(internist )
Dr. Aakanksha Sharma,
Dr. Rohit Singh,
Dr. Kanika Yashi,
Dr. Taru Sehgal Rajpal,
Dr. Aishwarya Verma and
Dr. Manasa Kotte, Pediatrician
Dr. Piyush Shrivastava and Mansi Batra, Family medicine physician
Dr. Muthumeena Kanappan.
They have many expert physicians from India as well, including Critical care, Internal Medicine OBGyn, and Psychiatric experts like Dr. Neelesh Mathankar, Dr. Devesh Gupta, Dr. Deepti Gupta, Dr. Sonal Verma, and Dr. Arpit Sohane, and Dr. Nisant Ohri.
Dr. Ekta Bansal Kohli, an expert infectious disease specialist on MD help online, says- “It has been heartbreaking to see the situation in India during Covid second wave. Being an Infectious diseases doctor practicing in the USA, I wanted to help the patients, especially as the healthcare system in India got overwhelmed. MD help online provided that platform where I am able to help the patients directly. It has been a great experience so far, and I remain committed to continuing to help patients in need”.
Obstetrician Dr. Deepti Gupta says- “When we heard about MD help online, there was absolutely no second thought, and we volunteered to be part of this fabulous bunch of young doctors. In current times, when on one hand doctors are overworked, on the other patients are afraid to move out for simple queries, we are really happy that we are able to chip in our time and effort for our people. This is an amazing platform which allows us to reach out to patients through multiple channels.”
Critical care expert Dr. Neelesh Mathankar says- “It is such a great feeling to help people in this crisis. MD help online provides us an amazing platform to reach so many needy people.”
These physicians are here, for our country, to help during this crisis situation. Visit them on their website mdhelponline.com or join their Telegram group via t.me/MD help online and an expert physician will greet you with a very personal Namaste!!
