Refill Oxygen Cylinders at Just Re 1! Manoj Gupta, Businessman From Uttar Pradesh, Refills Oxygen Cylinders at Such Low Cost To Save Lives of COVID-19 Patients

Lucknow, April 23: At a time when oxygen cylinders are hard to come by and the few that are available, are being sold for as much as Rs 30,000 in the black market, this information comes as a pleasant surprise. Manoj Gupta, a businessman in Hamirpur district is refilling oxygen cylinders at a cost of only Rs 1 for the treatment of Coronavirus-positive patients.

Owner of Rimjhim Ispat Factory in Sumerpur Industrial Area in Hamirpur, Gupta has so far refilled over 1,000 oxygen cylinders for Rs 1 only in his bottling plant to save the lives of hundreds of Covid patients. ‘Oxygen Express’ Carrying Cryogenic Tankers With Over 100 Tons of Liquid Medical Oxygen Reaches Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh (Watch Video).

Gupta was himself struck by the deadly virus last year, after the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. "I have experienced the suffering because I have gone through a similar experience. My bottling plant has a capacity of refilling 1000 oxygen cylinders per day and I am giving the refilled cylinders at Rs 1 to all," he said. Oxygen Crisis in Delhi: 25 Sickest Patients Die at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Authorities Demand Urgent Oxygen As Lives of Another 60 Sickest Patients in Peril.

Relatives of all Covid patients under home isolation can get oxygen cylinders refilled after submitting their RT-PCR report, certificate from the doctor treating them and Aadhaar card.

People from Jhansi, Banda, Lalitpur, Kanpur, Orai and several other districts, including Lucknow, are now making a beeline at his oxygen bottling plant to get a refill at Rs 1 only for their dear and near ones suffering from the deadly virus.

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