By SAT News Desk
MELBOURNE, 16 May 2021: As Delhiites scramble to find beds for COVID-19 patients, Kailash Kher, singer and music composer, and his KK Foundation are gearing up to open a 2000 unit bed facility in Delhi in partnership with ISCKON.
Kailash Kher says, “We are already running a 200-bed hospital in ISCKON Dwarka, Delhi. The people’s overwhelming requirements and the response to our foundation have moved us to increase the capacity to 2000. We want to help as many people as possible.”
Kailash Kher has started an initiative, ‘I am Oxygen Man,’ with his KK foundation. In this initiative, Kher is organizing a live virtual event in partnership with the ISKCON COVID Care Center. The event will see some of the biggest names of the Bollywood industry going live. Guests like Daler Mehndi, Shankar Mahadevan, Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Mika Singh, Manoj Muntashir, Hema Malini, Satish Kaushik, Boman Irani, Vivek Oberoi, Sunil Grover, and Raju Srivastava, among others, will join the event.
Since the lockdown last year, Kailash Kher and his KK Foundation have been rigorously and passionately involved in helping the needy. Their first initiative was distributing ration kits to thousands of people when the lockdown was first initiated in 2020,
With this second wave, since the situation has become alarming, the KK foundation has helped people individually all over India with oxygen, medications, hospital beds, etc. KK Foundation has collaborated with numerous other foundations to help people, even from distant villages. The foundation recently received 1 lakh N-95 masks from IPS officer Sandeep Goel, which it aims to distribute in towns and other remote areas.
Kailash Kher also adds, “We appeal to all social media users to be a part of this event. For the first time, so many celebrities will come together on one platform. I have also donated 25 lakh towards this cause and urge everyone to help as much as they can. Our country needs us.”
This virtual event will be live on Facebook and YouTube handles of renowned motivational speaker Dr. Vivek Bindra at 4 PM (IST) on 16 May. Here, fans can catch their favorite singers live, accompanied by comedians like Raju Srivastava and Sunil Grover, who will also entertain fans with their comic style.
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