new delhi legendary indian cricketer sachin tendulkar has been making contributions for helping people during the ongoing covid19 pandemic besides making donations towards the pmcares fund and chief ministers relief fund maharashtra tendulkar has been partnering with various ngos and hospitals to help underprivileged peoplein his latest initiative the 47yearold partnered with srcc childrens hospital in mumbai to help underprivileged childrenthree months ago a 14yearold boy rakesh name changed had acute transverse myelitis he was unable to walk and had to spend about 12 hours on the road as he was refused admission by most of the hospitals for fear of covid19rakesh who comes from an economically backward family as his father santosh name changed is a milkman spent 12 hours without any food and water till he reached srcc childrens hospital run by narayana health after spending two months at the hospital for treatment of the same rakesh can now walk slowly and is keen on getting back to his studiessimilarly a twoyearold boy salman name changed was diagnosed with a liver tumor his father anwar name changed is the only earning member of the family and is an employee at a computer shop the family struggled to arrange for finances for salmans treatment he was then admitted to the hospital and postoperation remained in the pediatric intensive care unit on ventilator supportthe parents of several such children who are now hale and hearty have expressed their gratitude to tendulkarrakesh is slowly back on his feet after having spent over two months at the srcc it will take a while for him to get back to normal since he was suffering from paralysis but we are happy at this progress said rakeshs motherwe would like to thank srcc and sachin sir for helping us with the finances as it was difficult with my husbands income to meet the expensessalman is now fit and fine for which we have no words for the kind of support given by sachin sir we learnt it later that he was the one behind in giving us all the financial help we are totally indebted to sachin sir as we had once upon a time given up for lack of finances said salmans fatherspeaking about the association dr soonu udani medical director of srcc childrens hospital said sachin tendulkar through his foundation has been a godsend to us just like us they are equally passionate about childrens healthcare this partnership is an everevolving partnership they understand what we are doing and the extent of support they have given has been a tremendous help to usshe elaborated that sachin through his foundation was helping address a need in childrens healthcare that not too many ngos extend a helping hand with