Without giving a second thought, Satyakam Patnaik, Trinamool leader in West Bengal, went out of his way to help a man who showed symptoms of COVID-19.?
A man dressed fully in a white PPE suit was spotted riding a motorcycle with a pillion rider in a homemade red mask in West Bengal's Jhargram district on Monday.
The pillion rider is 43-year-old Amal Barik, a migrant labour who recently returned home to his Sijua village. He was feverish the last few days and fearful of COVID but unable to arrange an ambulance to get to hospital.?
When Satyakam Patnaik of nearby Gopiballavpur heard about it on Monday, without a second thought, he went to pharmacy, bought a PPE suit and drove to Barik's house on a borrowed motorcycle.?
Patnaik spoke to Barik's wife and two children and took the 43-year-old on his bike and drove back to his local hospital, waited till the doctor had examined the patients, taken a COVID swab and told them to go home and stay there till results came out.?
The duo then drove back home again.
The distance to the hospital was only three-four kilometers, however the deed was much bigger.
Satyakam Patnaik is a leader of the Trinamool youth wing, Yuva, at Gopiballavpur Block 1 and part of a Yuva Warrior club recently launched by Trinamool Yuva chief and party MP Abhishek Banerjeem according to news agency PTI.