as the coronavirus pandemic continues to present new challenges every day there has been a rapid transformation in the way we live work travel and play from lending support to the underprivileged during these harsh times to volunteering care for the elderly great stories of humanitarian values have emerged during the public health crisis while everyone is doing their part in this fight against the pandemic it is undeniably the medical fraternity that has been at the forefront of this public health emergency each day brings overwhelming challenges of an everevolving situation coupled with the emotional toll of social distancing to even reports of harassment faced by some in the medical fraternity by their neighbours touching images of a doctor breaking down when not being able to hug his son and a nurse giving an air hug to her daughter illustrate only a fraction of the anxieties medical workers have been struggling to cope with at a time when the focus is on all the things we cannot do there is a need to reorient our focus on doing what we can notwithstanding the devastating impact on people and businesses the pandemic has brought out the collective resilience and resourcefulness of the indian travel and hospitality sectors extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures especially to aid the efforts of the medical professionals in the present situation with this collective thought makemytrip and goibibo indias leading online travel platforms have launched an initiative to support the temporary accommodation needs of the medical frontline force fighting covid19 the initiative has been rolled out in partnership with hotel chains and independent hotels that are pitching in to support our healthcare heroes across 26 states and 4 union territories congratulationsyou have successfully cast your votelogin to view resultlaunched as stays for saviours on the makemytrip app and as hotels for our heroes on the goibibo app the initiative has brought together the frontrunners of the travel and hospitality industry to offer their support to the medical fraternity in these challenging times the travel companies are making an effort to provide safe temporary accommodation options to medical practitioners at subsidized rates the initiative is an attempt to give back to those who are going the extra mile to safeguard our health and wellbeingspeaking about the initiative deep kalra founder group executive chairman makemytrip limited said the global outbreak of covid19 is making us live through extraordinary times and the exceptional service of frontline workers who are fighting this on behalf of humanity needs everyones support and encouragement we are grateful for the courage shown by healthcare workers and we want to assist them by providing comfortable and subsidised accommodation options to these heroic first responders in solidarity with their sense of service we want to do our part in making it a little easier for them to find temporary accommodation that suits their needs at this point in timeamong the hotel chains that have opened their gates to welcome medical workers as part