Actor Sonu Sood to Set Up Oxygen Plants in 2 Hospitals in Andhra Pradesh in June

Actor Sonu Sood announced that the first set of oxygen plants funded by him will be set up in two government hospitals in Andhra Pradesh in June. One of the oxygen plants will be set up at Kurnool Government Hospital and the other at the District Hospital in Atmakur, Andhra Pradesh.

India has been battling the second wave of Covid-19 since March with thousands of people dying due to lack of oxygen supply in hospitals and inadequate beds, vaccines, medicines, cremation and burial spaces across the country. While the Central government has been denying the severity of the situation, Sood and his team have been working night and day attending SOS calls, arranging oxygen cylinders and medicines globally.

The Telugu Film Journalists Association (TFJA) expressed their gratitude to the actor and his charity foundation after he donated oxygen concentrators to his TFJA “family” and delivered the product within 10 hours since the request time.

Groups of people in Chittoor and Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh have been bathing Sood’s life-sized posters with milk to convey that “they should take Sonu Sood as an inspiration and help others!”

Recently, Sood and his team worked through the night to provide oxygen cylinders to save the lives of over 20 patients at the ARAK hospital in Bengaluru in response to an SOS call.

From delivering injections via flights from one state to another to airlifting a critically ill 25-year-old patient who had lost 90% of her lungs from Nagpur to Hyderabad and another from Jhansi to Hyderabad, Sood has been labelled a “messiah”.

Sood, who has primarily worked in the Hindi, Telugu and Tamil film industry, has been working for the underprivileged section of people and arranging aid since 2020, when the Covid-19 induced lockdown was imposed. From arranging transportation for migrant labourers to take them home safely, funding the education of underprivileged children, feeding thousands of migrants daily to arranging vaccines, medicines and beds.

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In May 2020, Sonu airlifted 177 female migrant workers in Kerala to their hometown in Odisha.

While Sood urged the Centre in April to provide free education to children who lost their parents to the pandemic, the governments of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Delhi, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh in the past two weeks have announced free education for orphans in their respective states.

India has recorded 27, 20, 716 active cases with 3, 03, 720 deaths as of Monday and has become the third country to have over three lakh deaths after Brazil and USA, as per Central government data. While Andhra Pradesh has recorded 2, 09, 237 active cases with 10, 126 deaths as of Monday according to the official government data.