Devendra said he paid Rs 10,000, including Rs 400 for the oxygen, and embarked on the long journey to Noida.
BOKARO: Answering an SOS from the family of a Covidafflicted friend in Noida who wasn’t getting oxygen support, a 38-year-old schoolteacher from Jharkhand s Bokaro drove 1,400km through three states in 24 hours with a gas-filled cylinder to save the man’s life.
Devendra, a resident of Sector 4 of the industrial township, set out for Noida in his car around 1.30pm on Sunday after coming to know that the parents of his friend Ranjan Aggarwal, who works in an IT firm in Delhi, had been turned away by everyone they had approached for oxygen.