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VOL. 111, NO. 39 APRIL 23-29, 2020
New COVID-19
testing facility opens
in Forest Hills
Page 8
Queens electeds
call for MTA
shutdown
Page 3
Elmhurst
Hospital doc
helps feed
colleagues
Glendale roadhouse owner’s brief brush with Civil War: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was — See Page 20
Photo courtesy of Erfanul Saker
GIVING BACK
Queens activist donates ice cream to EMS workers
See Page 8
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BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
CMOHAMED@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
On his day off , Dr. Erfanul Saker
delivered a meal from a Taiwanese
restaurant to his colleagues
at Elmhurst Hospital Center who have
been working tirelessly treating coronavirus
patients.
“We had an abundance of food and I
did not want it to go to waste, so I came
to the hospital and helped distribute
the food elsewhere,” said Saker, who is
a third-year internal medicine resident
at the hospital.
Saker has been able to buy meals
for himself and the health care professionals
through generous donations
from friends, family and the
community.
While Saker’s donation funds were
dwindling, his friends — Anthony
Davis, Raul Abreu, Chris Edwards,
Ricardo Ospino and Dane Wright —
created a GoFundMe food account on
April 4 on behalf of Saker to provide
hospital staff with breakfast, lunch
and dinner.
According to Saker, the food was
being delivered to the residents at
the hospital, but now it’s shared with
nurses in the pediatric unit and staff
in the intensive care unit.
“We’re trying to make sure everyone
is fed and taken care of,” Saker said.
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