PANJIM: The Goa Pradesh Youth Congress (GPYC) expanding its services to help COVID-19 patients on Friday launched two vehicles to pick-up COVID patients from their homes and to carry oxygen cylinders at the hospitals.
Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Girish Chodankar, GPYC President Adv Varad Mardolkar, General Secretary Archit Naik, North Goa District Youth Congress President Vivek D’Silva, Mapusa Block Youth Congress President Himanshu Tivrekar, CCP Corporator Joel Andrade and others were present at the launching of vehicles held near Congress House, Panjim.
Kamat praised the work of Youth Congress, saying they are helping people during the tough times.
“Goa is reeling into COVID-19 crisis, but the BJP government has made no efforts to ease and control the situation. Many senior citizens are looking for help to visit hospitals, as they have no one to take them. In this case, Youth Congress has become a ray of hope,” he said.
Kamat said that saving the lives of people should be a priority, in this COVID-19 situation.
Chodankar said that Youth Congress has set an example of humanity by providing oxygen to people irrespective of political affiliations. “Youth Congress has helped many supporters from other political parties. Our motto is to save the lives of people,” he said.
Chodankar has appealed to people to help the initiative of Youth Congress to break the chain of COVID-19 virus.
According to Adv Mardolkar, Youth Congress has given a breath of life to many patients in the last 15 days by providing them oxygen cylinders at hospitals, as the government failed to arrange the required capacity of oxygen in the hospitals.
“The failure of this insensitive BJP government to arrange oxygen was exposed by a team of doctors, who were helpless due to non-availability of the same. When we tried to provide oxygen cylinders to the patients, this same incapable government harassed us by summoning us at police stations to enquire about from where we purchased these cylinders,” Adv Mardolkar lamented.
