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Covid-19 Care and Relief at Guru Nanak Mission Hospital, Dhahan-Kaleran, Punjab

Darpan News Desk Darpan, 13 May, 2020 11:45 PM

Canada India Education Society needs your support for COVID-19 care & relief in Punjab. Barj Dhahan, Director and CoFounder of CIES speaks to Darpan social media host Ish Sharma. CIES and Guru Nanak Mission Hospital are charitable organizations and very dear to my heart.

We have been providing accessible, affordable and quality health care to the region as well as training nurses many of them now living and working in Canada.

Now the Guru Nanak Mission Hospital needs additional support in order to care for the local population especially those who are unable to afford it. The link to donate is: https://fundrazr.com/ciestocombatcovid19.

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