Residents come to aid of ailing health facilities

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, May 14

With the government health facilities hard-pressed for resources in view of the high influx of Covid patients, several residents and voluntary social organisations have come forward to their aid.

Good Samaritans and residents’ associations are donating medical equipment like oxygen concentrators for critical patients, personal protective gear like PPE kits, N95 and surgical masks for doctors and healthcare workers and blood for thalassaemic children and other patients at Rohtak PGIMS and Civil Hospital. The Association of Haryanvis in Australia (AHA) has donated 10 oxygen concentrators of 10 litre capacity each to the Rohtak PGIMS. Association president Sewa Singh Redhu said they decided to donate oxygen concentrators on the advice of Dr Naveen Malhotra, incharge of Pain Clinic at the PGIMS.

Also serving cooked meals to patients, attendants

• Several social organisations of Rohtak like Sati Bhai Sai Dass Sewa Dal, Shri Himodevi Jain Charitable Trust, Jan Sewa Sansthan and Hari Om Sewa Dal are also supporting the state-run health facilities.
• They have set up quarantine centres for Covid patients, arranging oxygen concentrators and cylinders, delivering cooked meals to Covid patients and attendants.

Prof OP Kalra, Vice-Chancellor, Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, has expressed gratitude to the association.

Sumeet Bhayana, founder of Ram Saran Dass Bhayana Memorial Trust, has donated five advanced oxygen concentrators capable of providing high-flow oxygen to critical patients to the local civil surgeon’s office, while five more are in the pipeline. Rohtak Deputy Commissioner Capt Manoj Kumar and Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Birla have appreciated the notable contribution of the trust. Several social organisations of Rohtak like Sati Bhai Sai Dass Sewa Dal, Shri Himodevi Jain Charitable Trust, Jan Sewa Sansthan and Hari Om Sewa Dal are also supporting the state-run health facilities by setting up quarantine centres for Covid patients, arranging oxygen concentrators and cylinders, delivering cooked meals to Covid patients and attendants. These social organisations have proved to be great helping hands.