MP: MAN MAKES PEEPAL TREE 2ND HOME FOR O2

Amid a serious oxygen crisis unfolding across the country, a

68-year-old man in a Madhya Pradesh village has chosen to make a peepal tree his second home to maintain a healthy

SpO2.

Rajendra Patidar of Rau Rangwasa village, nearly 40 km from Indore, has been spending around four hours on the tree every day since the last couple of weeks. He started doing this after reading of death of scores of people due to shortage of oxygen.

“Death of so many Covid victims due to lack of oxygen has disturbed me. I thought that I should apply our traditional knowledge of staying close to a peepal tree to get sufficient oxygen to avoid such a crisis. Hence, I decided to spend at least four hours a day on the peepal tree to maintain a good blood oxygen level”, he said on Saturday.

Mr Patidar, a farmer, sits on a plastic chair perched on the branches of the peepal tree and does breathing exercises. “I maintain SpO2 of 99,” he said.

The sexagenarian climbs the tree carrying the chair himself and puts the chair on the branches of the tree to start his day’s yoga on it. “This has been my daily routine for the last fortnight”, he added.