Mangaluru: Hit by an LPG crunch, Karunya meal project at District Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru has switched to firewood cooking to continue providing dinner to patient attendants.For the past eight years, M-Friends Charitable Trust has served dinner daily to around 400 people at the hospital. Over the last six months, it has extended the service to Lady Goschen Hospital.Food is prepared in the trust’s kitchen, with chapati and curry served five days a week, and idlis and saaru served on two days. The project had run smoothly, ceaselessly, until the LPG crisis hit its kitchen.At present, the team has limited the menu to veg biryani or rice and sambar. Until the LPG issue is resolved, it has appealed to the district administration and donors to arrange four to five gas cylinders, which would enable it to resume preparing idlis and chapatis as before, a release stated.
