ul volunteers covid19

statewide volunteer research

Scientist and researchers across the country are working together to combat covid- 19.... news 1's leigha mcneil talked to a researchers from u-l lafayette who are doing there part..

Standup: i's all hands on deck at hospita's across the country as health care systems cope with the growing numbers of people hospitalized due to covid 19...but researchers at ul helped to launch a statewide project to recruit volunteers to help outsot: like any other university across the country we are doing any and everything that we possibly could to apply our scientific and information capacity as researchers because tha's what we do."

As the vice president for the research, innovation and economic development at ul lafayett's dr. ramesh kolluru says the've been doing everything they can to help those on the front lines "we are doing things to see if we can design a valve that instead of one person per violator we can possibly have it run for multiple people,we have a huge biomedical research research center at the university that is working with various pharmaceutical companies to to look at to test their vaccines."

And now with the help of other faculty and staff...the covid-19 volunteer management system was created "medical students and nursing students to try and see if they could add some value to health care workers.""to see that the're in dire need of how many people they need to come in i's extreme right now" now that sh's working remotely..ul nursing senior elise baldwin can now travel outside of acadaiana to help where sh's needed most"it was never a question to me to come in or to not come in the drive to baton rouge is really difficult from baton rouge to lafayette but to be able to go and give my time and help out i's wonderful" "in louisiana we deal with disasters we are resilient people we are people they care about our communities and so we are going to do whatever we can."

In lafayette leigha mcneil news 15 thanks leigha...dr. ramesh says they have almost 3-thousand people that have signed up to volunteer.

For access to the volunteer management system website, visit www dot covid