Soa Community Radio Awareness Program to Fight Corona
Bhubaneswar: The Soa Community Radio, which is run by Education and Research (Deemed to Be University), is broadcasting a number of awareness programs amid the horrors of the covid-19 epidemic. In partnership with UNICEF, Voice of Soa Community Radio 90.4 has been regularly broadcasting awareness programs on wearing masks, washing hands and maintaining social distance.
Through the special program "Surve Bhabantu Sukhinai", the community radio is raising awareness about how to prevent and avoid the Carona virus through a program of talks with experts and doctors from the Soa-run Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital. Many Soar researchers are also providing more information to the audience about this deadly virus.
During the epidemic, psychiatrists are discussing mental health through Soa Community Radio, while hopefuls and ANMs are informing the audience about safety, proper exercise and nutritious food. Street plays and jingles are being performed by community radio on topics such as loneliness at home, patient care at home, and care for the elderly, superstitions, and inequalities.
Awareness programs are also being conducted in Oriya, Hindi and English on how to treat and treat antigens, RHT-PCR tests, plasma therapy, plasma delivery and care for patients with cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure during this epidemic.
The radio jockey program "Soa Youngistan" for Soa students is being performed twice a week, while the digital program "Kovid-18" is being carried out by students from his home. Social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook are heavily involved in Soa Community Radio, and a number of courses are being offered in collaboration with the NCERT. Ten episodes of a program called ‘Mission Corona’ have been aired since last June in collaboration with UNICEF and Community Radio Association6. Of these, two agricultural episodes, "Soa Agricultural" and "Badi Bagicha", were well-received.
Experts from the Soa-run Institute of Agricultural Sciences have come to Soa Community Radio to give special comments on women’s mushroom cultivation, pest control, organic farming, roof gardening, seasonal flowering, fruit and vegetable farming. Radio also has a special program on yoga. Soa Community Radio is regularly listened to by a wide variety of listeners, said Honey Patnaik, who is in charge of the radio station.
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