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Sonu Sood leads covid-19 relief,

urges other celebs to pitch in

Bollywood star promises to set up 18 oxygen plants across various states of India

Our Bureau
ther due to Covid.
Mumbai “City: Nagpur. Day:1 Moth-
er, Father, Brother and Sister
ollywood actor Sonu all tested positive. Day:7 Broth-
Sood, who has been in er dies, Mom and Dad who are
Bthe limelight because critical are not informed. Day: 9
of his philanthropic work, has Father dies without knowing the
promised to set up as many as son passed away two days ago.
18 oxygen plants across various Day: 10 Mother is very critical.
states of India. Only survivor is this 19 yr old
The 47-year-old actor is girl,” Sonu Sood tweeted on Sat-
starting this noble deed from urday night.
Kurnool and Nellore in Andhra And now on Sunday, Sonu
Pradesh and Mangalore in Kar- Sood informed that the girl has
nataka. He will soon set up the lost her mother too. “I woke up
other oxygen plants across states with the news that her mom also
like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Sonu Sood passed away just now. Now this
Punjab, Uttarakhand, Telan- little girl is all alone. Please come
gana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, forward and support such fami-
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Mad- lies. They need you. If you can’t,
hya Pradesh, and many others. let me know, I will. Life is so un-
These 18 oxygen plants will cater fair,” he added.
to almost 5,500 beds. From helping migrants to
Speaking about the initia- reach their homes to arranging
tive, Sonu said, “In the last few medicines and other Covid-19
months we have seen that the relief resources for the patients,
biggest problem that we all have Sonu Sood is doing humanitari-
faced is oxygen and the un- an work since the Covid-19 out-
availability of it. My team and I break happened in the country.
thought about what we should Many Bollywood celebrities
do to eradicate this oxygen prob- like Priyanka Chopra, Anush-
lem from its roots. So, we decid- ka Sharma, Amitabh Bach-
ed that we should set up entire chan, Varun Dhawan, Akshay
oxygen plants in as many places Kumar, and others have come
as possible.” forward to contribute in order
The actor added, “These ox- The star being felicitated as he starts an ambulance service on his name to help aid people crippled by
ygen plants would be installed called as 'Sonu Sood Ambulance Service', in Hyderabad (ANI) the COVID-19 pandemic in
mostly in hospitals where the the country. Amid the surge in
poor people are given free treat- to helping the needy get proper awareness about the inoculation cases, many stars like Katrina
ment. With these oxygen plants medical attention to now setting drive in the country. Kaif, Taapsee Pannu, Alia Bhatt,
being installed our aim is to en- up oxygen plants altogether - The actor has also appealed Mira Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar,
sure that not a single person in Sonu has been doing it all. to privileged people to help the among others have been using
the country should die of the Sonu had received his first needy during the coronavirus social media to amplify the voic-
unavailability of a basic neces- dose of the COVID-19 vaccine pandemic. “It’s high time the es of those in need.
sity like oxygen. Let’s all come at Apollo Hospital, in Punjab privileged ones come forward Earlier, Yash Raj Films also
together and give a hand to the on April 7. Along with getting and support such needy families. stepped forward and pledged to
needy in these striving times.” vaccinated against the infection, They need us. Please find them vaccinate the daily workers of the
The actor has been trying to the actor had also launched because they might not be able entire Hindi film industry. YRF
help out as many people as pos- ‘Sanjeevani - A Shot of Life’, to find you,” Sonu Sood tweet- also launched the ‘Saathi’ initia-
sible amid the COVID-19 pan- an initiative to encourage peo- ed. His post comes after learning tive to provide financial support
demic with his altruistic works. ple to get vaccinated against the about the case of a 19-year-old to all the daily wage workers in
From delivering oxygen cylinders novel coronavirus and for raising girl who lost her brother and fa- Bollywood.

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