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Covid: Volunteers in Ghaziabad do what government should

Sikh aid group Khalsa Help International has been buying small quantities of oxygen as and when it becomes available to help those in urgent need

Reuters Ghaziabad Published 26.04.21, 01:38 AM
A Covid patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on Saturday.
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A Covid patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on Saturday.

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Covid-19 patient Vidhya Devi, 70, should have been in emergency care at a hospital, but instead she lay on the backseat of a car outside a gurdwara, battling for breath, as she was connected to an oxygen tank on the street.

Sikh aid group Khalsa Help International has been buying small quantities of oxygen as and when it becomes available to help those in urgent need.

A Covid patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on Saturday.
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A Covid patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on Saturday.

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Cars, vans and rickshaws plying Covid-19 patients and their families choked the street outside the gurdwara in Ghaziabad on Saturday, as volunteers holding black oxygen cylinders spread out to help.

A Covid patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on Saturday.
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A Covid patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on Saturday.

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“I came here because I didn’t get help anywhere else,” said Manoj Kumar, who sat next to his mother Vidhya in the car. “I called the gurdwara and they asked me to reach here fast,” said Manoj.

A middle-aged woman in a van appeared to be palpitating as her adult son, holding her arm tried to keep her conscious, calling out: “Mummy? Mummy?”

A woman sitting with an oxygen mask in Agra on Sunday.
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A woman sitting with an oxygen mask in Agra on Sunday.

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In another van, a man lay unconscious on a car seat, legs stretching out of the door, as one volunteer vigorously rubbed his feet, while another pumped his chest to try to revive him. 

A relative of a Covid patient waits to get a refill of the oxygen cylinder at Badarpur in New Delhi on Sunday
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A relative of a Covid patient waits to get a refill of the oxygen cylinder at Badarpur in New Delhi on Sunday

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Rummy, who is president of the gurdwara and founder of Khalsa Help International, said he began providing the service three days ago as cases started spiking in New Delhi.

“People are dying on the streets. That’s why we started this,” Rummy said.

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