Dear Friends,

Amid the pain and great suffering of the Covid crisis all around us, perhaps the greatest weapon we have is the best and most up-to-date medical / public health information and advice.

Like many around us, we too have also been overwhelmed with the innumerable viral videos and messages with diverse medical advice, often contradictory and out of date, from unverified sources.

As a result, our sister organization The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation decided to bring together the very best “top of the mountain” medical advice from the best experts in the UK and India to create a clear, combined set of messages representing the ‘state of the art’ best practice in the two countries, covering Covid prevention, home care, ‘red flags’ requiring hospitalization and next stage care, hospital care and Long Covid. This is been put together as a dialogue between two very eminent physicians representing, in their opinion, the best thinking in India and the UK:

• Professor Randeep Guleria (Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi);
•  Professor Nicholas Hart (Clinical Director, Respiratory, Sleep and Critical Care, Lane Fox Respiratory Service, Director of Research Delivery, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London)

They are moderated in this dialogue by another very eminent expert, Professor Srinath Reddy, President of the Public Health Foundation of India, who has also played a key role behind the scenes in making introductions and setting the stage.

The main video aims to give a single clear, comprehensive framework to lay people and medical practitioners alike. In our opinion, the messages are remarkably similar and there is a significant consensus of understanding after 16 months of this terrible pandemic about what experts feel is the understanding today. We are pleased to share this video with you through which the two prominent experts give simple, effective messages, demystify speculations through accurate information around prevention of transmission, COVID appropriate behaviour, recognizing the symptoms, home management and isolation as per protocols, red flags for hospitalization, recommended treatment guidelines for early recovery and managing the long term repercussions of COVID.  

We hope this framework can ‘demystify’ Covid treatment protocols for all concerned and by providing the best, currently known understanding, save lives and improve outcomes.

To do this, however, we need your help! If appropriate, could you please send these videos on to all your networks and contacts? We would be deeply grateful!