Non-profit organization to lend O2 concentrators for free

Surat: Amidst the many instances of greed taking over benevolence and corrupt people trying to milk profit from those caught in the grip of the killer Covid pandemic, initiatives, like the one started by a city-based NGO Chhanyado, will provide the much-needed ray of positivity.
The NGO has created a bank of oxygen concentrators and plans to lend it to those in need free of cost.
Chhanyado had placed an import order for 100 oxygen concentrators of which 40 have been delivered so far.
The NGO will be lending the concentrators community and primary health centres and isolation centres in rural areas. “Right now, cases in Surat city are low but in future if any patient needs the concentrator during treatment or for post-treatment procedures, we will lend it at against a token deposit amount,” said Mehul Desai, an advisory committee member of the NGO.
Apart from getting the concentrators free of cost, the patients or their kin won’t have to run around to get the machine. “Our men will take the concentrator to the patients’ homes and install them. We will instruct the patients about how to operate. Once their need is over, our men will bring back the concentrators and return the deposit money to the patient,” said Desai, whose grandfather had founded Chhanyado.
“We will also be ordering larger concentrators which can be used in hospitals,” he added. Desai informed that his friends and other good Samaritans of the city helped him raise the funds for buying the oxygen concentrators. Chhanyado had donated 56 lakh food packets in Surat during last year’s lockdown.