Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, May 8: People are known to follow various procedures to keep breathing difficulties away by keeping their air passages clear of bacteria and viruses, and thus keeping the coronavirus infection at bay. The doctors advise their patients to strengthen their immunity power against diseases through exercises and good food. People have resorted to breathing exercises in a big way in the recent past.

The personnel of Sarjapur station here have brought into practice their ingenious idea to stop corona on its tracks. They stand around a pressure cooker and inhale the steam coming out of it to strengthen their breathing mechanism. In addition, they do breathing exercises, consume Kashaya concoction, and zinc tablets.

The police place medicinal herbs, neem leaves, Tulsi and eucalyptus leaves into the cooker, fill it with water and then heat it. The steam coming out of the cooker is routed through a tube which then is inhaled.

The pressure cooker comes with a steel pipe and two outlets through which two police officials can inhale the steam together, said Harish V, who looks after maintenance. The police who have completed their shifts are made to inhale the steam before they go home. Sometimes, zinc tablets are given to the policemen and their family members. Pressure cookers have turned out to be their apparatus for a satisfying breathing exercise for them.

Similar arrangement has also been made at Barke police station Mangaluru. The staff there use a steel pipe having four outlets and the cooker is placed in a wooden frame. Three outlets can be used for taking in the stream while the fourth is attached to the pressure cooker. This was created by inspector Jyotirlinga Honakatti which he made at Belagavi last year. It is learnt that several other police stations in Chitradurga, Haveri and Shivamogga have made such arrangements to facilitate the staff to maintain their health and escape from infection.