BOKARO: A man from Bokaro drove all the way to Noida in the National Capital Region, covering a distance of 1,400km in about 24 hours, with an oxygen cylinder for his friend down with Covid-19.
Devendra (38), a teacher by profession and a resident of Sector 4 in this industrial township, set out for Noida in his car about 1.30pm on Sunday after found out that his friend Ranjan Aggarwal, who works at with an IT firm in Delhi, was struggling with low oxygen levels.
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Doctors in Noida had told his family that they would have to arrange for oxygen themselves as they were facing an acute shortage. When Rajendra’s parents reached out to Devendra for help, he went to several oxygen plants and suppliers seeking in Bokaro, but they refused to give him oxygen unless he came with an empty cylinder.
Devendra took help from one of his friend and approached the operator of Jharkhand Steel Oxygen Plant at Balidih Industrial Area, where the technician agreed to give him a full cylinder if he paid for the security deposit.
