Making Hospitals, Feeding Patients And Providing Oxygen: How Help Is Coming From Across People
The second wave of COVID-19 is wreaking havoc in India and across the country, across the country hospital are being overwhelmed by the number of patients.
In some of the worst-hit cities, COVID-19 patients, including many who are in urgent need of medical attention are struggling to find hospital beds.
Given how bad the situation, individuals, groups, and religious places are coming forward in their own ways to provide some help.
Gujarat
In Gujarat, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Vadodra has started a 300-bed Covid facility on its 3.5 acre land in Atladara.
¡°We are providing all the non-medical facilities for patients. We have arranged for oxygen and ventilators including the ICU rooms apart from fans and air-coolers. Currently, 300 beds are operational and 200 will be added soon,¡± said Gyan Vatsal Swami of Shri Swaminarayan Temple.
Vadodara
It is not just the Shri Swaminarayan Temple, the Darul Uluum Tandalja Mosque in Vadodra has also started a 140-bed facility for COVID-19 patients.
Noida
In Noida, a Gurudwara in Sector 18 has been providing free food for COVID-19 patients who are in home isolation.
The food, which includes roti, daal, chawal and one sabzi is provided at the patients' houses for lunch and dinner.
¡°On a daily basis, we are able to deliver between 125-150 food packets to Covid patients, including the elderly who don¡¯t have anyone to cook for them and housewives upon whom their families are dependant,¡± Gurmeet Singh, the head priest told The Times of India.
It is not just religious places that are coming forward to help those in distress.?
The Lions Club in Ahmedabad had recently launched a portable oxygen machine bank in the city. The initiative is aimed at providing oxygen machines to critically ill patients at home.?
