Reaching out to the Delhi blast victims’ families
September 8th, 2011 - 8:07 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Some Delhi residents who had suffered in earlier terrorist attacks turned up at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital Thursday to offer solace and share moments of sorrow with families of the Delhi High Court blast victims, keeping aside their own personal grief.
They were joined by many others keen to do their bit for the luckless victims and their unfortunate families.
Meera Mehta, who lost her 21-year-old son Aditya in the German Bakery blast in Pune February 2010, said “reaching out” to the Delhi High Court blast victims “would help me deal with my own grief”.
“I have come to RML to offer whatever help I can,” Meera told IANS.
Her son was a student of the Bharatiya Vidyapeeth, Pune.
Expressing her anguish, Meera said the government’s responsibility doesn’t end by just announcing some amount of money for the family of the victims.
“Any such incident leaves a deep imprint on the family which continues to suffer for a long time after losing a dear one,” said Meera.
Ashok Randhawa, who survived the 2005 Diwali-eve blast in the Sarojini Nagar market, came to provide food and water to the devastated relatives and friends of the blast victims.
“I have been lucky. I think friends and family of the victims need help in such difficult times,” said Ashok.
There were many others who rushed to help the blast victims, including with offers of blood donnations.
Ashutosh Abhishek, 24, a software engineer in a Noida-based MNC, said, “I had decided to help the blast victims. I took leave from office Thursday and came to donate blood.”
Ashutosh said he decided to donate blood after watching the news Wednesday.
“The plight of the injured saddens me. Our politicians need to wake up,” said Ashutosh.
Suresh Kumar, 46, a businessman from Haryana’s Rohtak, said: “I had come here to visit my business partner and together we decided to come here to donate blood. Though doctors have told us that there is no shortage of blood in the hospital, still we want to chip in.”
“I’ll remain in constant touch with the hospital authorities and would not hesitate to come down here again if and when needed,” he added.
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