and joining me from popal in central india is dr one of the on a public health policy expert dr bong welcome now you have been looking at the mental health impact of the coronavirus emergency in india do you think young people are particularly vulnerable. thanks for having me yes absolutely young people are certainly quite vulnerable you know this has been an extended much more than a year of lockdowns in the stoppage of schools colleges just a lack of certainty you on when things will improve they've also seen in lots of cases ellipses within family losses within family but ups not being able to reach out to friends and meet them in the way they were able to have support systems earlier they've been increasing cases of domestic violence and all of that obviously has it all specially now i think with the increasing number of cases the negativity all around the visual say thing on t.v. it is adding to the mental health i'd like to talk a bit about the frontline work as the medical professionals doctors nurses medical attendants who are literally at the frontline of this crisis and hav

in every city village street corner the healthy news the sick in popal of mohammed can witness children carrying their parents on the backs to hospital so he sold his wife's jewelry and turned his rickshaw into an ambulance. a critically ill patient cannot be brought to the hospital without oxygen support so i thought why not turn my 3 wheeler into an ambulance it's not a space uses and i wouldn't but it can surely saves lives. shahnawaz shaikh gave up his vehicle selling it to buy oxygen for strangers in the last year he supported more than 4000 people in mumbai the military were given over i decided to sell my car to raise funds to buy oxygen cylinders and provide oxygen to people who are unable to find hospital beds so their lives come saved one of those lives is mel khan's mother. i think it was the right shahnawaz has helped me a lot he has already given me 2 cylinders it's thanks to him that my mother is able to stay home and braith with the aid of oxygen. yet in a country of nearly 1400000000 its people are increasingly working as one unified in their fight for collective surviva