Help comes to aged couple
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Members of NGO, Help For Needy, helped shift a poor couple to hospital after they had been abandoned on the suspicion that they were COVID-19 patients in Belagavi.
Mahadev Devan (70) is a security guard at an apartment complex and his wife, Shanta Devan (65) is a domestic help. They were both suffering from mild cough for a few days. The apartment residents suspected that they had contracted COVID-19 and asked them to vacate the servants quarters and leave the building premises.
But Mahadev Devan was weak and was barely able to walk. His wife sat by his side waiting for help. A resident of Hindwadi area in the neighbourhood alerted Help For Needy members about the plight of the couple.
A group of NGOs has urged the State government to reconsider its order of stopping cylinder allotment to NGOs that were providing them to COVID-19 patients in home isolation or those in COVID care cen