New Delhi: Three devoted Covid Care Centers (CCC), organising of an oxygen plant, import of oxygen concentrators from Russia and efforts to import over 500 oxygen concentrators and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from the USA is what the Sikh’s single largest representative body Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is dong to sort out the Covid problem in opposition to all odds with the sheer dedication to profitable the struggle in opposition to the lethal pandemic and offering therapy to Covid 19 sufferers from all walks of life.
Zee News talked to SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur who proudly acclaims to have thrown all resources of SGPC for the ‘Sangat throughout the attempting occasions and vows to proceed their struggle in opposition to the eradication of Covid.
“We have opened a 25 bed CCC at Gurdwara Sri Manji Sahib, Alamgir, Ludhiana, 50 bed CCC at Bhai Dal Singh Diwan Hall, Takht Sri Damdama Sahib, Bathinda, and another 25 bed CCC at Bholath, Kapurthala where Covid 19 patients are provided preliminary medical aid and medicines as well as oxygen,” mentioned Kaur with a glimmer in her eyes as she compares the federal government amenities with that of SGPC’s.
These amenities are as well as to an already operating devoted 100-bed hospital for the therapy of Covid-19 sufferers at Sri Guru Ramdas Charitable Hospital, Amritsar.
Nearly 100 Covid 19 sufferers are receiving therapy at Alamgir CCC out of which 55 have recovered and gone residence whereas 12 critical sufferers have been rushed to totally different hospitals after preliminary examination on the centre” Kaur says whereas giving an instance of one of many CCC.
Though the SGPC’s earnings from the choices obtained at gurdwaras have significantly come down due to poor footfall of devotees owing to the coronavirus pandemic but the identical isn’t any deterrent in Covid care mission of SGPC who has additionally diverted the medical workers of its Sri Guru Ram Das University of Health Sciences to run these amenities.
Despite being a non secular group, Kaur says the SGPC has coated all three areas of Punjab particularly Majha, Malwa and Doaba in offering Covid care to the sufferers.
To fulfil the necessity for lifesaving fuel Oxygen, the scarcity of which has value a number of lives throughout the nation, Jagir Kaur says they’d imported oxygen concentrators from Russia in addition to SGPC’s groups was working around the clock to get round 500 oxygen concentrators from the USA.
SGPC is all set to set up its oxygen era plat in Sri Guru Ram Das University of Health Sciences for uninterrupted oxygen langar.
The SGPC had additionally been holding free Covid 19 vaccination camps. “We have sought permission from the Center authorities to permit us to import Pfizer’s Covid 19 vaccine from the USA in order that we might start a mass Covid vaccination marketing campaign throughout the state, “ mentioned Kaur.
The SGPC had additionally shot off letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan
And if the SGPC will get the Center authorities’s nod, will probably be the primary group to import the Covid vaccine and start vaccination camps.
The SGPC has additionally put in two sanitization tunnels on the entrance of the Golden Temple to disinfect the devotees earlier than getting into the holiest shrine.
