Rashfaq Ahmad Bhat had been turned away from three hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir in the beginning of May this year as a deadly second wave of Covid-19 raged across India, infecting millions of people and leading to an acute shortage of beds and medical oxygen. Desperate to save the life of his 55-year-old mother Naseema Bano whose oxygen saturation was dipping dangerously low, he turned to the only other people who he knew were helping ordinary.