Noida: After its free food service for Covid patients in home isolation, Gurdwara Shri Guru Singh Sabha in Noida’s Sector 18 has started an oxygen langar for Covid patients at the multi-level parking lot behind Botanical Garden metro station. The initiative is supported by Khalsa Aid.Covid-positive residents who are not able to secure a hospital bed or get oxygen support can now drive in at the gurdwara’s makeshift camp and get oxygen support for up to three hours. The entry is from gate 4. But one has to book an appointment on 96547 14986. Patients have to carry their Aadhaar card.
 
Ten beds have also been kept at the centre for those reaching there in an auto rickshaw. Since Thursday evening, 10 patients have availed the service, the gurdwara management said. The centre has oxygen concentrators and cylinders that are being filled with the support of the district administration. “So far, there is not much rush though more than 10 people have availed our oxygen sewa since Thursday. The district administration is helping us refill the cylinders and the Noida Authority is providing traffic management,” Surjeet Singh Bhasin, president of the gurdwara, told TOI.

Indirapuram Gurudwara in neighbouring Ghaziabad, on April 22, started a similar initiative, and it has so far catered to over a thousand patients. The administration in Ghaziabad has allowed the gurudwara to procure oxygen from BHEL in Haridwar, from where they are ferrying 50 cylinders daily.
 

At Gurdwara Shri Guru Singh Sabha, however, patients with blood oxygen level below 80 are being encouraged to get hospital support and not bank on the langar solely. “The service is for people who need interim help before proper medical support can be accessed,” Surjeet Singh said.  “Patients are being asked to sign an undertaking so that the gurdwara does not have any responsibility for the medical condition of the patient. Patients with oxygen levels below 80 should consider proper medical support and not bank solely on the langar,” he added. 

The Gurdwara has also been running a langar service for Covid patients who can`t cook for themselves.  There are five langar kitchens running in Noida and Greater Noida — at the Sector 18 Gurudwara. Sector 37 Gurudwara, Noida Extension Gurudwara, Sector 50 Sangat Centre and Sector 121 Sangat Centre. Vegetarian meals are being sent to over 200 patients twice a day from these centres. 

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