Gurgaon/Noida: Residents of several housing societies across NCR cities are helping domestic staff, drivers and car cleaners employed in their complex.
Noida: With some of the societies coming up with temporary solutions like facilities with oxygen and other similar help and some setting up their own isolation centres, resident groups of Gautam Budh Nagar have demanded that they be allowed to run these centres with permission and support from the administration.
TOI had earlier reported how the Gaur Saundaryam society in Greater Noida (west) had formed a temporary isolation centre in their premises where they have kept oxygen cylinders, oximeters and they are extending help to the Covid patients with immediate medical advice from doctors available in the society.
The Homes 121 society in Sector 121 is the latest to come up with such an arrangement or an “emergency Covid-19 response centre” where a group of residents have gathered and are helping out patients in their society with the assistance in getting a hospital bed or oxygen cylinders.
UPDATED: April 25, 2021 00:27 IST
Residents of the Gaur Saundaryam housing society in Greater Noida West have set up a temporary isolation centre within the society s premises (Picture Credits: Abhishek Ananad)
High-rise societies of Uttar Pradesh s Noida and Greater Noida have sought permission from the state government to allow them to set up isolation centres for Covid-19 patients at their buildings.
A permission regarding this has been granted by the state government for Lucknow already.
Noida is facing an unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases and, as a result, the city is running out of hospital beds, oxygen and essential medicines for treatment.
Greater Noida: When CS Mittal’s oxygen levels started dropping, his wife Namita became increasingly worried. The 45-year-old engineer, who lives in Gaur Saundaryam in Greater Noida (West), tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week and had been in home isolation since then. With reports of oxygen supplies running out at hospitals across Delhi-NCR, Namita started a frantic search for a cylinder.
Relief came in the form of a taskforce of some residents in their society, who delivered an oxygen cylinder to their doorstep around 3am on Wednesday. With their help, Mittal was later taken to Apollo Hospital in Sarita Vihar.
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