Organisations, individuals and associations across Bhutan are providing free services to help combat COVID-19.

From the total of 4,737 volunteers with Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS)—a voluntary aid society, auxiliary to the public authorities in the humanitarian field—1,739 were deployed for COVID-19 response and 74 during the lockdown.

Programme officer of BRCS, Lham Dorji, said that in the current situation, BRCS as a lead stakeholder for body management had deployed five volunteers to transport bodies from hospital to crematorium in different dzongkhags.

Lham Dorji said that under the programme Red Cross Ride for Health, 25 taxi volunteers with BRCS provided free transportation services to health officials from the Royal Centre for Disease Control to collect swab samples to test for COVID-19.

Bhutan Taxi Association’s chairperson, Rinzin Wangchuk, also a volunteer with BRCS, said: “The visionary leaders in the country inspired me to serve the nation. Volunteering to provide services at this time is a form of giving.”

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