Surat: Workers of the Community Health Centre (CHC) at Limzar village of Navsari have been made to everyday traveling over 80 kms to receive two oxygen tanks refilled in the city and return to care for the Covid patients.
The Limzar CHC was not the only centre that relied upon this daily journey for the lien of oxygen, medications and other medical requirements.
This is the story of nearly every CHC in different cities of south Gujarat.
But things changed after the service given from city-based NGO Prayas Team Environment (PTE).
The NGO supplied many villages with many cylinders together with medications and healthcare accessories.
PTE is only one of many city-based NGOs and welfare groups who came with the support of village people who were confronting challenging circumstances in the present pandemic.
The problem is improving from the rural regions but timely assistance from such groups saved several lives.
All these teams of young professionals have worked throughout the next wave in town and implemented their expertise in cities.
The patients needing fundamental isolation centers were quarantined in the CHCs.
“Limzar includes a population of about 4,000 however its own CHC caters to several nearby villages.
Until today over 300 patients are treated ,” said Darshan Desai, a volunteer of PTE.
In the same way, several youths in town travelled 422 kilometers to Shedubhar from Amreli district to set up an isolation center in a village that has a population of 9,000.
“The problem was worsening from the rural regions of Saurashtra consequently we proposed to come up with an isolation center to encourage the villagers.
We put a 20-bed isolation facility with 25 oxygen tanks,” explained Jatin Asodariya, a citizenship at Ramkrupa Charitable Trust.
The trust also conducts health services from the Diamond City also.
An IT entrepreneur Ganpath Dhameliya combined hands with his buddies Dr Gautam Sihora along with Kapil Lathiya at setting up an isolation center at Gheti village at Bhavnagar.
“We put a 40-bed isolation facility and organized oxygen tanks out of Alang,” explained Dhameliya.