REPUBLIC OF SELF-HELP
MEET GURPREET SINGH RUMMY. For a living, he works as a contractor supplying fuel pumps to petrol stations in the National Capital Region. But not during these troubled times. He and his friends are busy running an ‘Oxygen Langar’ 24x7 in a gurudwara in Ghaziabad. They set it up in the last week of April to help Covid-positive patients who needed medical oxygen desperately but were unable to get it, either from the market or in hospitals. With the state machinery overwhelmed by the crisis and unable to meet the needs of Covid patients in the NCR, Rummy and his band of do-gooders—who call themselves Khalsa Help International—stepped in to make a difference. Patients can choose between being admitted to the 25-bed makeshift hospital
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