Express News Service
MYSURU: With hotels, mobile canteens and other eateries closed because of the lockdown and attendants of COVID-19 patients finding it difficult to get food, the Sri Ganapathi Sachidananda Ashram has started distribution of food packets for free to attendants at all govern-ment hospitals.
The ashram distributes 3,000 food pockets every day, and the food is prepared by the ashram’s cooks and some 40 volunteers, following all COVID norms. The distribution too is done through the ashram’s vehicles.
The Sri Ganapathi Sachidananda Ashram, during the first wave, had donated materials worth Rs 90 lakh and its other branches spent over Rs 3 crore on food kits, sanitisers, masks and other needs. Sri Ganapathi Sachidananda Swamiji said that the COVID second wave has been deadly, and asked people to follow the advisory issued by the government and experts till the curve is flattened.