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Parliamentarians partner NGOs, firms to strengthen fight against Covid-19

The action group will be known as Parliamentarians with Innovators for India (PIIndia.org), which aims to spur innovators to solve challenges in areas such as public health, economy, and livelihood.

Doctors attend to a patient who had come for check-up at a fever hospital, set up in the wake of of COVID-19 outbreak, in Hyderabad. Photo: PTI
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Doctors attend to a patient who had come for check-up at a fever hospital, set up in the wake of of COVID-19 outbreak, in Hyderabad. Photo: PTI

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
Fourteen parliamentarians have decided to partner with top venture capital funds, public health and policy organisations, and experts to strengthen the fight against Covid-19.
 
The action group will be known as Parliamentarians with Innovators for India (PIIndia.org), which aims to spur innovators to solve challenges in areas such as public health, economy, and livelihood.
 
While the 14 Parliamentarians come from different states and across party lines, the group has organisations like Population Foundation of India, Centre for Policy Research, Omnicuris, apart from top experts in public health and policy.
 
MPs Agatha Sangma of NPP, Karti Chidambaram, and Rajeev Gowda from