Highlights
- Indian restaurant provides hundreds of food packets to hospital staff
- Melbourne's Mercy Hospital appreciates the gesture
Melbourne-based Sai Krishna wanted to invite friends and family to inaugurate his new Indian restaurant but restrictions imposed due COVID-19 did not allow him to do so.
Instead, he came up with another plan.
"Because of coronavirus, I couldn't invite friends and family so I thought why not invite healthcare workers for the first meal in my restaurant," he told SBS Hindi.
“I could not think a better way to thank our health care workers on behalf of the community. Doctors and Nurses are looking after us like their own family members, that's why I wanted to serve them with my butter chicken and gulab jamun.”
Indian Restaurant donates hundreds of meal to hospital staff Source: Supplied
With the help of the Board Director of Werribee Hospital Foundation, Rishi Prabhakar, Sai got in touch with the hospital staff and delivered a cart full of meals for the staff on Tuesday.
"Mr Sai wanted to invite all of the hospital staff to his restaurant but you know it's not possible for them to leave the hospital altogether," Rishi Prabhakar told SBS Hindi.
“I told him there is a way out if he wants to help, maybe he could consider delivering food packets to the Mercy hospital.
"After consultation with the Mercy hospital administration, we explained Sai Krishana necessary protocol of sanitisation for any food product to be delivered to the hospital," Mr Prabhakar said.
Nicole Whiting, a nurse educator and board director at Werribee Hospital Foundation said it was an overwhelming experience for hospital staff to receive such delicious food as a token of thanks.
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“We do our jobs because we love it but I definitely want to appreciate everyone in the community for being so supportive of us nurses and doctors,” she said.
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