A Gurudwara in Ghaziabad has opened an “oxygen langar” for free in the middle of a severe shortage of medical oxygen in the country for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.

This comes in a situation when SOS calls and messages for oxygen cylinders and concentrations are flooding social media platforms.

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In this crisis-situation, Shri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram along with an NGO, Khalsa Help International, has opened this unique langar that promises to supply oxygen in its premises to Covid-19 patients till the time they find a hospital bed or home isolation patients whose saturation levels have dropped significantly.

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The Sikh volunteers said that they have also launched a helpline number, “9097041313”, for the people to call and book oxygen cylinder.

One of the Gurdwara volunteers stated, “Till now we have been able to save around 200 lives. We request Ghaziabad DM and VK Singh ji to provide us with 25 oxygen cylinders for 12 hours which will help us save 1000 lives.”  Shri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara is also offering testing facilities to people along with also providing medicine.

Apart from this, Khalsa aid group has provided for Oxygen concentrators in certain hospitals in Delhi facing Oxygen deficit.