Devgn helps set up virus unit
BOLLYWOOD actor Ajay Devgn and a few colleagues, with help from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), set up an emergency medical unit at Shivaji Park in Mumbai this week.
The municipal body has converted the Bharat Scouts and Guides Hall into a 20-bed Covid-19 facility with ventilators, oxygen support and para monitors. Devgn contributed funds through his social service wing, NY Foundations.
Film-makers Luv Ranjan, Boney Kapoor, Anand Pandit, Rajneesh Khanuja, Leena Yadav, Ashim Bajaj, Sameer Nair, Deepak Dhar and Rishi Negi, entrepreneur Tarun Rathi and action director RP Yadav, had reportedly contributed more than R2 million to the Smiley Account, the business development cell of the BMC.
The facility will be an extension of Hinduja Hospital, which will provide food, linen, medicine and manpower to the unit. |