As Govt Centres Remain Locked, Non-resident Villagers Pool In Resources To Set Up COVID Care Facility In Bihar Village
Patna, June 4 (TNA) With an effort to save the lives of their own fellow villagers, residents of Madhubani‘s Sarisab Pahi have adopted a novel way by setting up a makeshift Covid care facility within the village from their own resources. They blame the state government of not doing enough to shield them against the pandemic, forcing them to "take matters in their own hands".
Through crowd funding and polling up their meagre savings, a group of youngsters has managed to procure all essential medical equipments including oxygen concentrators, oximeters, PPE kits to be placed in a community centre to face the adverse situation.
Through a virtual meeting non-resident villagers conceived the idea and mobilised youths on the ground to start a kind of medical assistance campaign for Covid patients.
Initially, these youths were involved in exploring possibilities and arranging ambulances, beds, oxygen cylinders and blood for village’s patients in nearby hospitals in Madhubani and Darbhanga. Villagers created this resource centre with the help of community people and some technocrats. Numbers of non-resident villagers have joined in this campaign and contributed essential equipments for villagers.
Village head of Sarisab Pahi panchayat Ram Bahaur Choudhary says,” though we have a Bihar government run Primary Health centre but it remains locked even during this crisis hour”. To cope with any emergency, we have arranged basic equipments like oxygen concentrators, oximeters and digital thermometer and PPE kits at a community centre within the village,adds Vicky Mandal of Ayachi Yuva Samiti.
Sarisab Pahi is a famous within Mithilanchal for its intellect and happens to be the birth place of many scholars and eminent doctors based in different parts of country and even abroad. Taking such advantage, several doctors have volunteers their online consultations to the patients during this Covid crisis period.