EXCLUSIVE: Sourav Ganguly Donates 50 Oxygen Concentrators To Hospitals And NGOs

The former Indian captain and now the BCCI president is donating 50 oxygen concentrators in different hospitals and NGOs in Kolkata.

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Kolkata: In the cricketing field, he always led the team from the front. He is a true leader outside the field too. When India is deeply moved by the second wave of Corona Pandemic, Sourav Ganguly again takes his guard at the crease.

The former Indian captain and now the BCCI president is donating 50 oxygen concentrators in different hospitals and NGOs in Kolkata. From Saturday onwards, Sourav’s team is visiting the government hospitals across Kolkata and donating oxygen concentrators. On Saturday afternoon, Team Sourav Ganguly visited the Vidyasagar Hospital at Behala and donated two oxygen concentrators. The superintendent of the Hospital wrote a piece of acknowledgment and gave it back to team Sourav.

“Dada has bought 50 oxygen concentrators from a company and we have started distributing them. As a partial lockdown is scheduled to start from Sunday onwards, we are trying to reach as many hospitals as we can by Saturday evening. On behalf of Dada, we are distributing 50 oxygen concentrators as of now. Later we will donate more oxygen concentrators,” Taniya Bhattacharyya, one from Sourav Ganguly’s office, who herself visited various hospitals to make the donation, tells ABP LIVE Bengali.

Team Sourav Ganguly has donated oxygen concentrators to an oxygen parlor at Rajarhat, has sent two concentrators to Chinsurah in Hooghly district for an oxygen on wheel project. There is an NGO working for the ailment of Covid Infected senior citizens who live alone in Kolkata. Team Sourav Ganguly has provided them with oxygen concentrators.

Sourav himself has co-morbidities. He had a mild heart attack a few months ago and he has to go through angioplasty. That’s why he himself can’t go to each and every place with help and therefore sending his team everywhere. “We have to come forward and make sure that every infected gets proper treatment. We will do our best in this trying time,” said Sourav.