Mumbai: Many celebrities have come forward to help the people in need in this second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has been helping people in every way possible, continues to lend his helping hands to corona patients. He donated a sum of Rs 2 crore for a 400-bed Covid Care Center which started at Rakabganj Gurudwara in Delhi last week. Now, Big B has contributed to starting a Covid Center in Mumbai as well.
Amitabh has helped build a 25-bed Covid Center in a school and college called Ritambhara Vishwa Vidyapeeth, located in the Juhu area of Mumbai. For this, ‘The Intern’ actor has given financial assistance for the necessary medical equipment and also for the infrastructure required to install it.
Commencing its service from Wednesday, this Covid Centre is divided into two wards, in which the recruitment of Corona patients will start from tomorrow morning. Currently, both these wards have the capacity to treat 25 patients, but if necessary, 30 patients can be admitted here.
The speciality of this Covid Care Centre is that oxygen beds will be provided to the patients here, for which complete arrangement of oxygen cylinders and concentrators has also been made. With this, the patients admitted here will be given nutritious food for free, there will be free physiotherapy and mental health counselling for them.
This Covid Care Center established in Ritambhara Vishwa Vidyapeeth is part of the Malini Kishor Sanghvi College campus. Its trustee Umesh Sanghvi said while talking to ABP News, “Most of the facilities will be free for the patients coming here. It will be taken care of that they do not have any problem. We are thankful to Amitabh Bachchan that he helped us in starting this Covid Center.”
Well-known filmmaker Anand Pandit has also contributed to the establishment of this Covid Care Centre. Anand Pandit is not only a good friend of Amitabh Bachchan but the latter has also played the lead role in Pandit's film 'Chehre'. The release of 'Chehre' has been postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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