A living example of selfless service to humanity Dr Naurang Singh Mangat will be visiting Surrey from September 15 (evening) to September 19 (noon).
During his visit, he will be staying at Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Surrey. For the last 18 years he has been looking after and trying to save lives of the destitute, homeless, blind, disabled, mentally challenged and poor sick people lying on the streets of Punjab.
“It was in 2005 that I began cycling around Ludhiana City providing free medical care to homeless and sick people lying on the roadsides and at other places. These efforts to help the homeless and the sick have now taken the shape of a well-known registered charity called “Guru Amar Das Apahaj Ashram”.
“Its three-storey building is located near village Sarabha of Ludhiana district. Till to date, nearly 600 homeless patients were admitted/treated in the Ashram. After medical treatment, many were rehabilitated. After receiving medical treatment and nutritious food, many of these were rehabilitated and able to find their footing in life again,” he said.
However nearly 185 patients (males and females), who could not become fit for work, live in the Ashram permanently. Out of them, about 55 are severely critical. These patients are mentally and physically disabled, unable to answer the call of nature, cannot recall their own name or whereabouts. When people visit the Ashram, some of them tend to break down emotionally after seeing their pains, and wish that no one should suffer this fate, Dr Mangat added.
Dr Mangat who is a former Professor and Scientist of PAU, Ludhiana, University of Windsor, and Morrison Scientific Inc. Calgary, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of London (UK) said that on completion of another new three-storey building under construction, the Ashram will be able to house about 300 of such needy people in the future. For more information, he can be reached on his cell phone 403-401-8787 or at [email protected].
