Delhi-based lawyers team up to crowd-source money for makeshift Covid hospital

A group of Delhi-based lawyers has teamed up to crowd-source funding to set up a 50-bed makeshift covid facility that will be fitted with oxygen concentrators.

The group that includes Vaibhav Kakkar of L&L partners and Karan Chandhiok of Chandhiok and Mahajan has roped in former Natco Pharma executive CV Narayan Rao to help with technical assistance for the project.

The team is looking to raise Rs 2 crore for setting up the makeshift hospital and for sourcing 100 oxygen concentrators. They have identified The Scholar School in south Delhi to set up the makeshift field hospital. Volunteers from the CSR arm of Aster DM Healthcare will serve at the hospital. The healthcare company has also contributed to the fund raising campaign.


Their efforts have already yielded partial success as the group has so far raised about Rs. 68 lakh as per details on fundraising platform milaap.

The lawyers have also tied up with Meddo Foundation which provides online consultation support to patients.

Last year a group of top executives from companies such as MakeMyTrip, Fortis Healthcare, Medanta-The Medicity, Ernst & Young, DLF, Rivigo and Softbank had pooled resources to form a 150-bed facility in Gurugram for treatment of Covid patients.

More recently, yogurt maker Epigamia, founded by Rohan Mirchandani, and Sauce VC, a venture capital fund founded by Manu Chandra teamed up to launch Doctors for You, a crowd funded initiative to help covid patients.

Corporate India has been chipping in with efforts to enable supplies of necessary materials such as oxygen which are in short supply. Several companies including Reliance Industries NSE -2.13 %, Tata, ITC, Adani NSE 2.25 %, JSW and JM Baxi have been helping hospitals or state governments with such supplies.