Disinfecting his locality to help check the deadly virus
GORAKHPUR: In an attempt to do his bit in fight against SarsCov-2, a local man is using a selffunded disinfecting system to protect his locality from the deadly virus.
Fruit trader Dilshad Ahmed, 35, of city’s Chotey Qazipur locality, can be seen in the lanes and streets of his area carrying a 200litre tank filled with sodium hypochlorite, a liquid bleach widely used as a disinfectant, on a cart fitted with a half-horse power pump and a mini generator. Four or five youths help Dilshad in sprinkling disinfectant in every nook and corner of the vicinity that has houses of both Hindus and Muslims.
“Please remains indoors. Follow the lockdown to help check the spread of the disease,” urges Dilshad as passes through the houses. The sprinkling of the disinfectant roughly costs him Rs 1500 a day and he started doing it on Friday.
“The fight against coronavirus is long while resources are limited. As each one of us has the responsibility of fighting the menace, I bought the disinfectant from the market, mixed it with water and started sprinkling it everywhere in my ‘mohalla’ and the response of people was very good,” Dilshad says.
“The sanitisation will continue till the virus disappears. I have taken the necessary permission for it from Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation (GMC) and corporator Zia-ul-Islam
FOUR OR FIVE YOUTHS HELP DILSHAD IN SPRINKLING DISINFECTANT IN EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF THE VICINITY THAT HAS HOUSES OF BOTH HINDUS AND MUSLIMS.
helped me in my efforts,” he claims. “The GMC has just four sanitisation machines which is not sufficient for the entire city. So, the efforts of Dilshad and those of the youths helping him are commendable,” says local corporator
Zia-ul-Islam. Dilshad’s initiative may just be a little beginning but locals are appreciating it. They are living in fear after Covid-19 death of a Basti-based youth Hasnain Ali, 25, whose relatives resides in adjoining Tiwaripur locality and have been quarantined. However, Gorakhpur district has not reported any positive Covid-19 case so far.