Hyderabad: NGO distributes PPEs, food to Covid warriors

Hyderabad: With an aim to contribute to the ongoing fight against COVID-19, a city-based NGO, Help Hyderabad, distributed food packets and PPE kits to medical staff and frontline sanitation workers and arranging transport for migrants back to their hometown.

So far, around 5,000 food packs of ready-to-eat meal boxes to doctors and 500 PPE kits, masks, gloves and face shields to medical staff at Nampally Area Hospital, Niloufer Hospital, Osmania Hospital and Primary Health Care Centre in Golconda and Nampally have been made.

The distribution was done in collaboration with Kohinoor Foods. Zaid Quadri, one of the members of Help Hyderabad team, said, "Medical personnel are extensively waging the fight to contain the pandemic from frontlines; so, we wanted to do something for them.

We distribute food packets to them as they have no time to cook meals for themselves. We contacted Kohinoor Foods which sent 1.7 tonnes of cooked food to be distributed amongst all medical warriors."

Each food parcel consisted of jeera rice, dal makhni, rajma curry, choley curry and their entire range of cooked food which was later segregated in packets for distribution.

Along with the food distribution, the team also arranged three travel buses to send the migrant labourers back to their hometown. Out of three two were sent to Jharkhand and one to West Bengal. Around 200 migrant labourers were sent back to their hometown.

"We are also distributing food packets to labourers staying at function halls which are converted into shelter homes at Secunderabad and Suchitra Junction for next two days," added Zaid.