Mohammed Ibrahim Akram of Beijing Bites, who sold off his 1952 model Fiat Elegant car to set up a kitchen for doctors last year, was lauded for his remarkable sacrifice.
Goodwill hunting
A volunteer (extreme right) picks up food from Beijing Bites staff to deliver it to those affected by the lockdown
Bengaluru’s noble souls have again started helping people in need of nutritious food as the city is now in lockdown mode
With the lockdown in place, many people who depended on restaurants and roadside vendors for their food are suddenly facing hard times. To help them get a hot meal a day, a group of volunteers have come together and have started distributing food to people who have no access to fresh daily meals.
Mohammed
Ibrahim Akram of Beijing Bites said, “The previous year as well, we distributed lakhs of meals and this year as the curfew began, we started the drive again and expanded it all over the city. We have set up a dining table outside our restaurant on Richmond Road where people can come and pick up the food around 1.30 pm every day. It’s free. We are identifying places to distribute the food for those in need and are sending i
Oxygen bed nightmare restarts in Bengaluru
Oxygen bed nightmare restarts in Bengaluru
ByKumaran PKumaran P / Updated: Apr 11, 2021, 06:00 IST
A blow-by-blow account of how a patient died after being refused by two branches of same hospital
It’s 2020 all over again. A 33-year-old man lost his life, despite
volunteers and members of the
Covid War Room coordinating his admission into two
hospitals, which refused to take him in after a bed was allotted there.
The man died, with doctors refusing to give him oxygen or check his SP02. After being driven around for six hours he succumbed on Saturday morning.
The patient was admitted to a private hospital in Madiwala three days ago with pneumonia and he later tested Covid-19 positive. When the hospital asked his family to move him out, they contacted Mohammed Ibrahim Akram of Beijing Bites, an Emergency Response Team (ERT) member.