US-based NRI donates 1K oxygen concentrators

Abohar, May 12

The district hospital in Hanumangarh, 60 km from here, that witnessed a protest on last Sunday due to non-availability of oxygen, has received 100 oxygen concentrators and installed 30 of them immediately.

US-based NRI Pritpal Singh Sidhu, who belongs to Dhaban village near Sangria, has donated 1,000 concentrators.

“We decided to arrange 1,000 oxygen concentrators of which 335 were earmarked for Hanumangarh and the rest were presented to NGO Khalsa Aid and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. At least, 235 have been dispatched to the Community Health Centres and Primary Health Centres as pandemic was spreading in rural areas,” said Simarjit Kaur, Sidhu’s mother and Dhaban village sarpanch. — OC