Volunteers offer helping hand, prepare protection kits for medicos
Pulwama: With the rising cases of Covid-19 being reported in Jammu and Kashmir and medicos facing shortage of protection kits including , volunteers of a charitable society in Bijbehara in south Kashmir have started making gowns that will be distributed among doctors and paramedical staff in the district.
Chairperson of the society Nuzhat Sultan said that there is shortage of protection gears in health department.
“We decided to make prepare protection gears and accordingly same will be distributed among staff members of the health department,” she said.
“The District administration helped us to some extent in procuring material for gowns and masks but we ourselves are bearing the price for most of it and our volunteers are making protection gears free of cost,” she said.
“These volunteers have learned tailoring with the help of ‘Umeed’ society last year and now they have decided to contribute by making these gowns free of cost,” she added.
“We are thankful to doctors and medicos who have been working tirelessly for serving us and now it is our responsibility to help them in whatever way we can,” she added.
“It is our small effort to prepare the stuff but others must also come forward at this critical stage,” she said.
Notably, ‘Umeed’ charitable society has disturbed eatables among the needy persons of the area besides spraying sanitizer in more than half a dozen villages besides Bijbehara town so that people of the area do not contract the deadly virus.
Meanwhile, a boutique owner in Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district distributed free uniform among the doctors amid the shortage of protection gears.
Saima Reshie, owner of ‘Fashion shades’, a boutique in Batagund area of Tral says:” Doctors and medicos have been working tirelessly for our safety and have been serving us 24×7 but we too have responsibility to do something for them.”
“They have been risking their lives for we people and it is our moral duty to help them and encourage them at this stage,” she said.
“At this stage everyone must come forward and encourage health workers and help them along with other needy persons in whatever way they can,” she added.
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