Fentanyl Overdose has claimed another victim and this time he's 21-year-old Indian young man named Jashanpreet Singh Sandhu who left India in 2016 to pursue higher education in Canada.
Sandhu died of overdose at St. Paul's Hospital on Feb. 10 in Vancouver.
Ravneet Panag, his distant residen relative in Brampton, Ont., whom he never met felt strongly to help his grieving mother who had also lost her husband to cancer less than a year ago.
In just one day, a GoFundMe campaign raised more than $30,000, surpassing its initial target by more than $5,000.
"I think I have cried 2 or 3 times over the last few days by looking at how generous people are. We are so overwhelmed with the support we are receiving, to the extent we are asking people to kindly not donate anymore," said Ravneet.
The money will go towards helping fly Sandhu's body back home to India and help pay off loans his mother took out to send him to Canada.
Sandhu had been studying at a local college since last June but it's not clear if he had an existing drug problem.
"We cannot do anything for Jashaan now — everything that we're doing, we're just doing it for Jashaan's mother." told the family
