LUCKNOW: An SOS call by a private
hospital
requiring 11 oxygen cylinders for Covid patients gasping for breath set the cops on their toes and in half an hour the police arranged oxygen cylinders and saved 11 lives.
On Monday around 12.45 am, Lucknow police commissioner DK Thakur received a frantic call of help from Pulse Hospital and Trauma Centre in Vrindavan Yojna area. The hospital said it had 11 critical Covid patients, but was running out of oxygen supply. The existing stock wouldn’t last for more than an hour, the hospital doctor said, adding that despite contacting sources, oxygen cylinders could not be arranged.
Realising that the lives of 11 patients were in danger, CP Thakur directed his sub-inspector (media cell) Nitin Yadav to help arrange oxygen cylinders at the hospital.
Nitin Yadav with the help of his other batchmates coordinated with suppliers at Nadarganj and requested for some cylinders. The cops arranged 11 cylinders and delivered them to the hospital in the nick of time. The hospital doctor and kin of the patients were at loss of words to thank the police team.
For Nitin Yadav, this has not been the first instance of going beyond the call of duty and helping people. Yadav told TOI that he has purchased three oxygen cylinders. “If anybody asks for help from the police then I ensure that it is reached to the person concerned in any place of Lucknow. I also appeal to the hospitals which are lying defunct during Covid-19 times to lend Lucknow police those cylinders we will purchase to get it refilled and help those in need,” he said.
Yadav also added that around 75 families have been helped by him since the spike in Covid-19 cases was reported in the city.
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