REGARDLESS of ethnic boundary and creed, UNITED SIKHS Malaysia, a Kuala Lumpur-based international humanitarian aid organisation, is steadfast to make the group’s “Help Indonesia Breathe” project a success.
The Jakarta-bound oxygen concentrators was transported by MasKargo on a flight from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 4.10pm today.
Yesterday (Aug 3), the team from UNITED SIKHS, led by its president Sunil Shukvir Singh, handed over the concentrators to MAB Kargo CEO Mohamed Ibrahim Salleh at the MAB Kargo headquarters.
This shipment is the first of a planned 50 oxygen concentrators costing RM190,000 as part of the “Help Indonesia Breathe” project.
The concentrators will be used in the COVID-19 Care Centre set up in the Tangerang Selatan area which is jointly managed by UNITED SIKHS’ partners, Yayasan Sosial Guru Nanak, to aid the ailing medical system and help save as many lives as possible.
Sunil said he was very grateful that the Malaysian Aviation Group (MAG) extended its hand to assist the organisation transport these life saving devices to Jakarta at no cost on a humanitarian basis.
The link between UNITED SIKHS and the MAG was made possible by UNITED SIKHS volunteer and Malaysia Airlines pilot Tripert Singh.
The “Help Indonesia Breathe” project is not the first time UNITED SIKHS Malaysia has assisted a foreign nation to secure oxygen concentrators to battle COVID-19.
Prior to this, UNITED SIKHS Malaysia had assisted to secure 100 concentrators for India during the peak of its COVID-19 crisis in addition to running COVID-19 Care operations in Malaysia.
In Malaysia, UNITED SIKHS currently distributes oxygen via oxygen bags and oxygen concentrators to assist patients battling the infection regardless of race, religion or creed.
Doing this at zero cost to Malaysian patients, the organisation has also been actively involved with helping patients who have been discharged from major hospitals but still require breathing aid or blood oxygen level monitoring devices.
“We can only battle this pandemic when everybody is taken care of. We have to think global, to bring things to normal,” UNITED SIKHS’ operations director Mandeep Singh pointed out.
UNITED SIKHS continues to operate its COVID-19 Care operations in Malaysia which include food ration delivery to the needy as well as medical aid to COVID-19 patients from its headquarters in Setia Alam, Selangor. – Aug 4, 2021
