Sonu requests govt to sponsor education of children who lost parents due to COVID-19

Actor Sonu Sood has been in the forefront of numerous relief efforts since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic, with lakhs of Covid-19 cases and thousands of deaths every day. Hospitals in several states are facing a critical shortage of oxygen, beds, and medicines. The Dabbang actor, has now appealed  to the government and the organisations who are helping in the Covid-19 crisis to think about the future of the children who have lost their parents in the pandemic. In a Instagram video, Sonu said, “I would like to request the government, the state government, central government or whichever institutes that are trying to help, that there should be a rule that whosoever has lost family members during Covid-19, the education of their kids, from school to college, be it in a government school or private school, should be free of cost.

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”Continuing further, the actor said, many families have lost their sole breadwinners in the ongoing pandemic so the organisations who are helping the people in need must have a system in place for the same. “Need to come together for every individual who’s lost a loved one in this pandemic,” he shared in the caption. A number of celebs supported the actor's idea by reposting the video in their respective social media handles. Sonu recently tested positive for Covid-19 himself. After being in home quarantine, he recovered within a week. The actor had earlier informed his fans via a social media post that he has tested positive for COVID-19.  Sonu recently, got a critically ill Covid-19 patient airlifted in an air ambulance from Nagpur to Hyderabad, to get a special treatment done. The 25-year-old girl, Bharti, who had lost almost 85-90% of her lungs due to COVID, with Sonu's help had been shifted to Wockhardt hospital, Nagpur for her treatment. The doctors had said that she needed a lung transplant or some special treatment which was only possible in Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad.