MUMBAI: India Inc has stepped up efforts to contribute to the country’s health infrastructure in the wake of the second wave of Covid.
HDFC Bank, as part of its Parivartan program, will build and improve medical infrastructure across the country to help fight the coronavirus. The bank said it pledged Rs 100 crore as an initial amount for Covid relief in FY22. This is in addition to the Rs 120 crore the bank spent on FY21.
The money will be used to set up 20 oxygen factories linked to hospitals, three 100-bed Covid care facilities, isolation centers and provide medical equipment and supplies to more than 200 hospitals across the country.
The Piramal Foundation has announced that it will invest Rs 100 crore for Covid relief in partnership with NITI Aayog. This initiative will reach over 1.2 lakh in 4 districts of Maharashtra and 20 lakh across the country. It will also set up 100 Covid care centers in tribal and rural blocks across India that currently have limited access to health services.
The initiative aims to provide 20 lakh patients with home support for asymptomatic cases with mild symptoms to reduce the strain on the overburdened healthcare system.
Chemical company UPL also announced that it has installed oxygen plants at eight hospitals in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, UP and Delhi. The company has converted four of its nitrogen production plants in Gujarat, to produce and deliver oxygen to four hospitals in Gujarat and UP.
Earlier this month, Hindustan Unilever airlifted 4,000 oxygen concentrators to India to address the acute shortage of medical oxygen. The total contribution is around Rs 38 crore.
HUL has partnered with the KVN Foundation and home care company Portea, to quickly make O2 concentrators available to patients in need.
As part of what she called “Mission HO2PEâ€, oxygen concentrators were dispatched to some of the worst affected cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Bangalore, among others.
While Portea has access to 3,000 concentrators, which are provided free of charge to patients. The rest were donated by HUL to hospitals in nearly 20 locations across India.
In addition, the company facilitates and covers the cost of immunizing its outer core of around 300,000 people, including those working for suppliers, distributors as well as Shakti Ammas in rural areas.
On the other hand, the Delhi-based industrial conglomerate JK Group made up of companies such as JK Tire, JK Paper, JK Lakshmi Cement, JK Fenner, JK Agri Genetics, Umang Dairy, PSRI Hospital, etc. announced its ‘JK CARES’ initiative, (Covid Assistance, Relief & Support) – a comprehensive Covid 19 relief package for the dependent family of the deceased employee across the organization, in which the group will make a contribution aggregate over Rs 15 crore.
JK Group President Bharat Hari Singhania said, “The safety and well-being of our employees is of the utmost importance to us. As part of our value of caring for people, we have been acutely aware of the need to provide extended support to the families of our beloved employees, who have sadly lost their lives. In the event of a claim by one of our employees, we will support bereaved families on three fronts: financial support for the family in the form of wage maintenance, educational assistance for the children and medical insurance for the family. All of these support systems will be provided to families for several years. ”
As part of this relief initiative, the aim is to provide support to affected families, in the event of loss of employee (s), due to Covid between April 2020 and until March 2022, thus covering both waves of Covid 19..
HDFC Bank, as part of its Parivartan program, will build and improve medical infrastructure across the country to help fight the coronavirus. The bank said it pledged Rs 100 crore as an initial amount for Covid relief in FY22. This is in addition to the Rs 120 crore the bank spent on FY21.
The money will be used to set up 20 oxygen factories linked to hospitals, three 100-bed Covid care facilities, isolation centers and provide medical equipment and supplies to more than 200 hospitals across the country.
The Piramal Foundation has announced that it will invest Rs 100 crore for Covid relief in partnership with NITI Aayog. This initiative will reach over 1.2 lakh in 4 districts of Maharashtra and 20 lakh across the country. It will also set up 100 Covid care centers in tribal and rural blocks across India that currently have limited access to health services.
The initiative aims to provide 20 lakh patients with home support for asymptomatic cases with mild symptoms to reduce the strain on the overburdened healthcare system.
Chemical company UPL also announced that it has installed oxygen plants at eight hospitals in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, UP and Delhi. The company has converted four of its nitrogen production plants in Gujarat, to produce and deliver oxygen to four hospitals in Gujarat and UP.
Earlier this month, Hindustan Unilever airlifted 4,000 oxygen concentrators to India to address the acute shortage of medical oxygen. The total contribution is around Rs 38 crore.
HUL has partnered with the KVN Foundation and home care company Portea, to quickly make O2 concentrators available to patients in need.
As part of what she called “Mission HO2PEâ€, oxygen concentrators were dispatched to some of the worst affected cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Bangalore, among others.
While Portea has access to 3,000 concentrators, which are provided free of charge to patients. The rest were donated by HUL to hospitals in nearly 20 locations across India.
In addition, the company facilitates and covers the cost of immunizing its outer core of around 300,000 people, including those working for suppliers, distributors as well as Shakti Ammas in rural areas.
On the other hand, the Delhi-based industrial conglomerate JK Group made up of companies such as JK Tire, JK Paper, JK Lakshmi Cement, JK Fenner, JK Agri Genetics, Umang Dairy, PSRI Hospital, etc. announced its ‘JK CARES’ initiative, (Covid Assistance, Relief & Support) – a comprehensive Covid 19 relief package for the dependent family of the deceased employee across the organization, in which the group will make a contribution aggregate over Rs 15 crore.
JK Group President Bharat Hari Singhania said, “The safety and well-being of our employees is of the utmost importance to us. As part of our value of caring for people, we have been acutely aware of the need to provide extended support to the families of our beloved employees, who have sadly lost their lives. In the event of a claim by one of our employees, we will support bereaved families on three fronts: financial support for the family in the form of wage maintenance, educational assistance for the children and medical insurance for the family. All of these support systems will be provided to families for several years. ”
As part of this relief initiative, the aim is to provide support to affected families, in the event of loss of employee (s), due to Covid between April 2020 and until March 2022, thus covering both waves of Covid 19..
