Jaspreet Rai is desperately trying to do her part for the country she left more than 30 years ago by helping its people breathe.
Rai, 53, who moved to Endicott, New York — the birthplace of IBM — from Punjab, in India, is the founder of Sanrai International, a provider of oxygen concentrators. With India now the epicenter of the pandemic, counting about 3,500 COVID-19 deaths daily, and oxygen supplies running out, Rai has rushed to help her former homeland cope with its worst crisis in recent history.
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