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Published 12:00 IST, June 2nd 2020

Dia Mirza, Vidya Balan donate PPE kits to frontline workers amid COVID-19 crisis

Recently, Dia Mirza, Vidya Balan donated PPE kits to frontline warriors amid COVID-19 crisis and thanked their fans for their generous and kind contributions.

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Bollywood stars have been doing their bit to help the people in need amid the coronavirus pandemic. Recently, Dia Mirza and Vidya Balan who have been trying their best to help the community amid the outbreak donated PPE kits to frontline workers in King Edward Memorial Hospital Mumbai and Gandhi Hospital in Bhopal respectively. The two shared a post on social media and thanked people for their generous contributions towards the same.

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Dia took to her Twitter handle and shared two pictures of the boxes with her name on it along with the name of the hospital. While sharing the pictures, the Sanju actress thanked all her fans and people who stepped up and contributed for a good cause. Apart from Dia, Bollywood’s versatile actress Vidya Balan also shared pictures on her Instagram handles showing the big boxes of top-grade PPE gear to all the frontline staff at the Gandhi Hospital in Bhopal.

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While captioning the post, Vidya thanked all the beautiful people for their large-heartedness and generosity while making contributions. At last, Vidya mentioned that she will be delighted to mention the names of the people who are making their contributions or a video shout out or even a video conference call as a token of her sincere thanks. 


This is not the first time that the Dirty Picture actress has extended her hand of support. Earlier, On May 3, 2020, Vidya Balan took to her official social media handles and posted several photos where fans can see that workers are loading huge boxes on a truck. These boxes contain PPE kits that are very necessary for doctors and other health professionals to fight off the COVID-19 outbreak. She has helped to donate over 2000 PPE kits. All these kits went to Kasturba hospital. Vidya Balan said, "First batch of the 2000 PPE kits donated by you all is being loaded at the plant in Delhi on its way to Kasturba hospital. Thank you so much for your generous donations and God bless you with a million times over of the best blessings life has to offer.'' 

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12:00 IST, June 2nd 2020