Health & Sanitation

SBI Life Insurance joins hands with Growdiesel Climate Care Council, a non-profit organisation, launched an AI-enabled Mobile Clinic for Covid-19 Testing & Vaccination to accelerate the much needed scaling up of testing & vaccination in Delhi. The initiative has been undertaken as part of SBI Life’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and will support in making...

Tech company Acer today announced that it is donating oxygen concentrators to help India fight the COVID-19 crisis. Leveraging its global presence, the company is procuring oxygen concentrators for India at this time of need and the first batch of oxygen concentrators has arrived in the country for immediate distribution. Harish Kohli, President & MD,...

L&T has procured and supplied 24 ventilators in an effort to immediately alleviate the shortage of medical equipment in South Gujarat. In the backdrop of the increased numbers of positive cases requiring ventilator support, L&T provided high-end ventilators to SMIMER, Civil and other dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in South Gujarat. The critical medical equipment was handed...

As part of its ongoing response to the pandemic, Singaporean banking and financial services conglomerate DBS Bank has joined hands with the Indian and Singapore Governments and partnered with leading NGOs to support the augmentation of healthcare facilities, including government hospitals and COVID centres across major cities. The overall contribution across all the CSR initiatives...

India Inc has risen to the challenge of the global pandemic with high-value CSR contributions in cash and kind. Corporate social responsibility has been giving hope to the despondent, food to the hungry, funds to the jobless and support to the frontline workers. Top CSR contributions for Covid Here are some of the biggest CSR contributions...

Amid the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, India is dealing with an acute shortage of oxygen supply. The Mahindra Group has rolled out a free service initiative, ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ (O2W), which will strengthen the availability of oxygen by connecting oxygen producers with the hospitals and medical centres in dire need of it. O2W...

Raytheon Technologies Corporation aka RTX employs nearly 5,000 people in India, primarily through Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace. The company is donating 1,000 oxygen concentrators that have already started arriving in India. This aid is part of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and organizations actively working with the government across the country. RTX is...

May 4th is recognized as World Asthma Day. The day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic took over the world and claimed many lives, the people of the world were praying for the year to...

Did you know that having asthma does not make you more susceptible to COVID-19? Since coronavirus affects the lungs and so does asthma, it's assumed that asthmatics are at higher risk but the latest research shows that there is no such evidence. So, you can heave a sigh of relief, literally! With World Asthma...

According to the Indian government, the demand for oxygen in hospitals and healthcare facilities has increased almost ten times compared to demand prior to the pandemic. With COVID-19 cases rising rapidly, many patients with severe infection are not getting the emergency oxygen supply they need. In order to help fulfill the rapidly increasing requirement...

Digital financial services platform Paytm announced that under the #OxygenForIndia initiative, it is set to airlift 21,000 Oxygen Concentrators (OCs) which is expected to reach India in the first week of May. These devices would be immediately sent to government hospitals, COVID care facilities, private hospitals, nursing homes as well as Resident Welfare Associations. The...

In the second COVID-19 wave, Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) Mumbai Zone - Gowalia Tank and Walkeshwar Chapter along with Babulal Bhansali, MD of Bhansali Engineering Polymers Limited, and Jain Doctor Federation have come to the rescue by starting a COVID-19 Isolation Centre at Janta Nagar Mumbai Public School in Tardeo, Mumbai. Another 100-bed centre...