#SocialforGood Daniel Weber’s chat show Stories of Hope discusses the COVID-19 facilities producer Anand Pandit has built with the city’s prominent personalities

In the 12the episode of his Instagram-based chat show, Stories of Hope, composer-entrepreneur Daniel Weber, sitting in a remote location in Kerala, invited producer, and infra-magnet Anand Pandit for a chat around all the social good that he has been backing for over a year now.
For those who have tuned in late, Anand Pandit has recently collaborated with actor-producer Ajay Devgn to create a 25 ICU-bed COVID19 facility in Dadar, which will be managed by Hinduja Hospital. His other projects include a similar facility in association with Amitabh Bachchan in Juhu at Ritumbhara School. It will be open to the general public from Tuesday morning. Anand, who also contracted COVID19 last year, started constructing these mini facilities a year ago with the help of the BMC to support them in their fight against the pandemic.“We had a construction job going on in Andheri East. That building continues to be used as an isolation facility by the BMC. This year, I got a call from Ajay Devgn who wanted to come up with a facility to help people. We identified a spot at Dadar. It’s fully functional and has been helping patients with assistance from Hinduja Hospital. Mr Amitabh Bachchan also wanted to do something similar, closer home. We now have a facility ready at Ritambhara School. Though I wish no one needs to use it; if someone does need help, it will be open from Tuesday. So many of my film industry colleagues have reached out to me to help them utilise their money to assist people in their needs. I used my infrastructure towards that. I believe that more than jumbo centres, we need smaller community centres to help people,” says Anand, in the process of completing a hospital building for the BMC in Andheri West.
Daniel, who had also reached out to Anand to assist those in need, says, “People like Anand are the need of the hour. They are remarkable human beings who help others and do so quietly and day after day.”