Pingalwara provides relief items in flood-hit areas across Ravi

A team of the All India Pingalwara Charitable Society led by its director Dr Inderjit Kaur visited flood-affected areas in Ramdas and Ajnala. Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, AAP’s suspended MLA from Amritsar North, too accompanied the team that attempted to reach most affected areas and provide immediate assistance to affected families on priority.

The team of Pingalwara society brought with it a huge amount of essential relief material, especially fodder for animals, clothes for affected families, blankets, dry milk, some food items and gas-chulha cylinders for cooking.

Providing medical relief to sick people on the spot was an important part of this mission and hundreds of people were given tetanus and hepatitis B vaccines, along with other necessary medicines. The Pingalwara society organised a medical camp to prevent the spread of diseases in the flood-affected areas.

The team faced difficulty in reaching villages across the Ravi as the only bridge connecting them to the mainland has been washed away. “From Makora Pattan across the Ravi, passing through various villages like Toor, Chib, Bharyal, Lasian Via and Dera Kajal, the journey had to be made first by boat and then by tractors due to high water levels. Local villagers played a vital role by providing their tractors and trolleys and ensured that relief materials and medicines reached every needy person in their villages,” said Dr Inderjit Kaur.

She said fulfilling the mission set forth by its founder, Bhagat Puran Singh, Pingalwara stands ready to provide a ray of hope to the needy. The Pingalwara society promised to provide motorboats to people there.