Joining the fight against the Coronavirus, religious communities across the city have opened their hearts and purses to provide affordable or free treatment. They have set up facilities equipped with beds, oxygen, medicines and offer hygienic food to hundreds of asymptomatic patients from their tribes. mid-day visited a few such centres on Sunday to get a closer view of these community-centric initiatives.

Staff at work at the Madni isolation centre at Momin Nagar, Jogeshwari, on Sunday

The Jain community has started a Covid-19 facility at Pawan Dham Jain temple at Borivali, while the Momin (Cheliyas) members have converted a primary school into a care centre at Momin Nagar society of Jogeshwari. These two centres have so far treated over 2,000 patients with zero deaths. Both centres are run on a no-profit-no-loss basis. They charge between Rs 1,000 and Rs 3,000. They also offer pick-up and drop services and shift serious patients to other hospitals.