Patna: A guy from Bihar has introduced a “mobile oxygen bank” to save lives after having trouble organizing life-saving devices when he fought the fatal COVID-19 while in hospital for days.
The delight of Gaurav Rai’s near death has now reshaped his life and can be felt driving through the city streets in his oxygen-charged car and distributing them loose to others in crisis. The maximum non-unusual complaint of families affected by the virus is that oxygen cylinders are not available at this critical time, and cases multiply during the following month.
The entire state is lately under a new era of blocking due to the outbreak of coronavirus cases. The new blockade that was implemented on 16 July lasted until 15 August.
“I entered Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) on July 14 after my blood oxygen saturation point dropped to 54 (against a general blood oxygen saturation point between 95 and 100) and I was able to see and speak correctly,” Rai recalls. “I urgently needed an oxygen bottle to survive, but none seemed serious in the face of my immediate deterioration. My circle of relatives made misery calls to so many hospital officials and that’s when I won an oxygen bottle. I still survived.” it turned out to be my lifelong experience,” says the CEO of a personal company.
Mobile oxygen bank
The first thing he did after leaving the hospital was turn his car into a “mobile oxygen bank.” Initially the bank started with 4 oxygen cylinders, but now the number is greater than 34. Among them, he donated 24 bottles.
“They’re all free. I don’t qualify cash even to fill bottles. I laughed a lot at seeing smiles on the faces of the victims’ families,” Rai said, adding that some of his close friends joined him to give him cash in organizing oxygen bottles. A full oxygen bottle costs around Rs 8,000 and its filling costs 400 Rs on the market.
Now, other people have also called him for help after making his cell phone numbers public on local media, social internet sites and FM radio stations.
Rai said he presented the initiative after locating the government machinery too slowly. “I don’t think there’s any point in criticizing the government because no one noticed. So I started my own oxygen bank. I have at least 4 oxygen cylinders in my car at once.”
Bihar panic
In the most sensible of that, Rai claims to have donated blood 86 times and plasma seven times. “No emotion is greater than filling the happiness of other people’s lives,” he adds.
The outbreak of COVID-19 cases has caused panic in Bihar, and the virus is now spreading across the state despite all the precautions taken by the government and the blockades imposed seven times in the last 4 months. According to a more recent report by the State Department of Health, COVID-19 has killed another 330 people in the state and inflamed more than 60,000 people.
What is more alarming is that only in the last month have 50,000 been reported.
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