Ek Noor Sewa Kendra — saviour of destitutes
Ishani Trehan
Ludhiana, June 22
NGO Ek Noor Sewa Kendra has become a ray of hope for those who are left alone and have nobody to take care of them even during the medical emergencies. Extending a helping hand to all such patients who are admitted in the destitute ward of the Civil Hospital, the volunteers of the NGO have become a light at the end of the tunnel for them.
The NGO has been taking care of the patients in the destitute ward for the past six years. The volunteers of the NGO take care of unknown people as their own family and are given proper medications and food as well.
Dr Tarwinder Singh who runs the NGO sharing his journey so far said initially he and his friends recited “kirtan” for approximately 9 years.
“Then, an incident took place which changed our lives and our perspective and goal towards life. One of my friends, Amarjeet Singh who is the secretary of Ek Noor Sewa Kendra lost his mother due to cancer. This had a serious effect on our minds. In order to serve the humanity and to abide by the teachings of Gurbani, we established the Ek Noor Sewa Kendra in 2014,” said he.
He further added that today, Ek Noor Sewa Kendra has a team of 20-25 core member and approximately 4,000 volunteers who have been providing free medicines to nearly 250 people everyday in the civil hospital for the past two years.
Babbi, a volunteer in the team said, “Even though ultrasound was not available at the hospital, and some patient required the facility immediately, an appointment for the patient was fixed in some other place and ultrasound was done. This is how we work, whether the facility is available at the civil hospital or not, we try to help them out with the best possible solution”.
Another volunteer, Gurpreet Singh, sharing an incident said, “A person had requested not to be treated from here and wanted to go back to his place, so we arranged a ticket for him to his hometown and gave him enough money to survive for 2-3 days.”
The food for the patients is arranged either from the Ann-Jal Sewa Trust or they provide it on their own. The number of beds in the ward is less and sometimes they have to manage 8 people on four beds. If patients have their homes they are sent home otherwise they have tie-ups with two Ashrams, are homeless patients are shifted there.
Good Samaritans indeed
Ek Noor Sewa Kendra has a team of 20-25 core member and approximately 4,000 volunteers who have been providing free medicines to nearly 250 people every day at the Civil Hospital for the past two years. The food for the patients is arranged either from the Ann-Jal Sewa Trust or they provide it on their own.
