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In memory of her mother, young woman runs an oxygen auto outside RGGGH
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Seetha, with her autorickshaw. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
On May 1, 36-year-old R Seetha Devi, waited outside the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) to admit her 65-year-old mother who tested positive for COVID-19. After hours, they managed to get her admitted to Government Stanley Hospital, but she died.
To prevent others from struggling like her mother, Ms. Seetha Devi has now started an autorickshaw oxygen service outside the RGGGH where her mother waited for hours.
“My mother R. Vijaya, who was already under dialysis, would have been saved if we had got oxygen on time. However, in the first week of May, there were many patients outside RGGGH and the hospital was over burdened. Hence I decided to start this oxygen auto service,” explains Ms. Seetha Devi who runs an NGO called Street Vision Social Charitable Trust. They render help to transgend