JAMMU: In these days of crisis triggered by the deadly COVID pandemic, Traders Federation Ware House Nehru Market has come forward to help the needy people of Jammu.
The Federation in its office has established War Rooms for ration, medicine and oxygen where anyone in need can contact office bearers of Federation for help. This was informed by Deepak Gupta, Federation president during a press conference.
Gupta regretted that despite suffering from a higher mortality rate, Jammu hospitals are facing shortage of beds, oxygen and ventilators. He claimed biased and prejudicial treatment to Jammu region as out of 46 Oxygen Generation Plants (OGPs) in J&K government sector, 34 were in Kashmir and merely 12 in Jammu. Questing scarcity of facilities, the Federation president said, there are no hospital beds available in Jammu and medicines are running short while crematoriums are full and frontline workers exhausted. “Taking serious note of these problems and to help the people, Federation decided to establish War Rooms for such supplies to the people of Jammu,” he maintained adding that they have more than 100 oxygen cylinders, 5 Bipap Machines, 5 oxygen concentrators and sufficient number of oxygen flow meters for which anyone in need can contact them.
He informed that for those who lost livelihood, the Federation has established Ration War Room and Medicine War Room to provide free ration and medicines to the poor and needy.
Munish Mahajan, senior vice president, Abhimanyu Gupta, vice president, Sham Lal Langer, general secretary, Vishal Gupta, secretary and Amit Gupta, cashier of the Federation were also present on the occasion.
