Exemplary Service: Khalsa Aid distributes 20,000 plus PPE kits in northern states
By Raju William
Ludhiana, April 28, 2020: Khalsa Aid has set a benchmark in public distribution of PPE Kits for fight against Corona Virus, by providing more than 20,000 of these to hospitals, police/administration personnel and those running 108 ambulance service across Punjab and its neighbouring states.
To help the states in their fight against this dreaded disease, the teams from Khalsa Aid have been travelling long and wide to make these much in demand kits available all over the region.
Realising that the country and the northern states in particular were facing a shortage of PPE kits for tackling the virus and that the Covid warriors were ill equipped in performing their day to day duties, Khalsa Aid took the responsibility of providing the kits to all these states.
More than 8,000 kits in Punjab, 4,000s in Haryana, 3,000 kits in Delhi and Rajasthan and 2,000 in Jammu, Himachal Pradesh and 1,000 in Uttrakhand till date. With this endeavour Khalsa Aid has added another dimension to its public help and voluntary social responsibility.
Punjab minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has acknowledged the efforts of Khalsa Aid for providing necessary items and equipment to the state prisons department for enhancing its capacity to tackle Covid 19.
Amarpreet Singh (Director- Asia), Khalsa Aid said, “As there is shortage of PPE kits in hospitals, our main focus has been to support the hospitals and administration in this collective fight against this pandemic. With profound grief we have to inform that one of our volunteers Inderjeet Singh lost his life while returning from Bathinda after delivering the kits. We will do whatever is possible to help the humanity without any prejudice and discrimination following our Gurus’ teaching of Oneness.”
The organization has been receiving requests from hospitals, dispensaries, police stations to provide them with kits and we are fulfilling these requests as per our stock. “We have also decided to work with the media personnel and will be providing safety kits to them as they are also risking their lives in this fight by keeping all of us informed about the latest news and happenings in and around the region and the country,“ he added.
Its volunteers in Delhi and Punjab are also providing ration and langar to the labourers and the marginalized sections of society.