Good Samaritan takes injured to hospital

A retired professor of the Punjab Agricultural University,Dr Naurang Singh Mangat,set a rare example of courage by saving the life of man who had met with an accident on Tuesday night.

Talking to Newsline,Dr Mangat said,“On March 16 around 8 pm,when I,along with my van driver,were on our way to Ludhiana,we saw a stray cow ramming into a scooterist half-a-kilometre from Sarabha village. With the help of two youths,I put the injured in my van and took him to a hospital. To our good luck,he regained consciousness after a few minutes.”

An NRI,Dr Mangat is heading a small NGO “Guru Amar Das Apahaj Ashram”. After serving 30 years as a scientist at Punjab Agricultural University,University of Windsor in Canada and Morrison Scientific Research Company at Calgary in Canada,he now pedals into slum areas of Ludhiana and surrounding villages on his bicycle with the sole purpose of extending help to physically challenged,lepers,blind,and the poor.