Sahara Education and Welfare Foundation plans to set up a charitable hospital in Belagavi.
Maaz Lakhani said that the foundation is running a charity clinic for the poor. Patients are all charged a nominal ₹10 per head. In January alone, over 1,700 patients visited the Sahara Health Care Clinic. “We are planning to set up a full-fledged charitable hospital in the city,” he told journalists in Belagavi on Wednesday.
“During COVID-19, we organised free ambulance, free oxygen supply and free food to countless families. The ambulance service has continued after the epidemic,” he said.
Salman Sheikh, president, said that like-minded friends founded the NGO in the midst of the epidemic and lockdown of 2020. “We have been working for the uplift of underprivileged sections of society through various engagements and programmes at the grassroots level, through live welfare projects on healthcare, education, nutrition, livelihood and women empowerment in the city and surrounding areas,” he said. Apart from healthcare camps and health awareness camps, the foundation is organising career guidance sessions for low income groups. Along with Rotary Club, Sahara is organising awareness programmes.
M.A. Farooqui said that Member of Parliament Mangala Angadi inaugurated the new office of the NGO last year and has assured support for the foundation. Other office-bearers were present.
