A Malad resident running an NGO has sold his SUV car to purchase oxygen cylinders which he is providing free of cost to the needy COVID-19 patients on home quarantine. Shahnawaz Shaikh and Abbas Rizvi who run Unity and Dignity Foundation had distributed ration kits and food to thousands of migrant labourers when the lockdown began. Now the duo bought over 60 cylinders - jumbo and small ones - to help people who could not get admitted to a hospital and don't have the means to buy the equipment.

"We spent all our savings in the initial days of the lockdown to help migrants. However, the death of Abbas' cousin, who was six months pregnant and could not find a hospital bed, made us understand the importance of timely treatment. She developed breathlessness and her family approached many hospitals to no avail. She died in an auto in Mumbra last month," said Shaikh.