Health & Sanitation

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...

Aster Volunteers, the global CSR arm of Aster DM Healthcare has signed an MoU with Al Shifa Multispecialty Hospital in New Delhi to help set up a 50-bed field hospital to meet the increasing shortage of hospital beds for Covid-19 patients. The CSR initiative is aimed at supporting patients who are financially disadvantaged and yet...

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. has announced an additional $10 million (Rs 74 crores) commitment to support relief and recovery efforts in India, as the country experiences a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. “Since the onset of the pandemic, our firm has been focused on how we can help communities around the world, including...

In keeping with its commitment towards the COVID-19 relief efforts, Hero MotoCorp Ltd has rapidly expanded its initiatives across the country. Under the company's CSR platform 'Hero WeCare', Hero MotoCorp has partnered with the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal (RMSK) at Haridwar in Uttarakhand for strengthening their healthcare system and response to Covid-19. Hero MotoCorp is...

Ketan Deshpande and Santosh Huralikoppi from FUEL Trust (www.fuelfornation.com) have started a fundraiser to place an order for 50 oxygen concentrators and COVID-related emergency supplies. India is facing huge challenges due to Covid Pandemic and many are succumbing to this deadly virus due to the lack of availability of oxygen cylinders and other medical supplies. We...

World Malaria Day today 2021 brings with it a ray of hope for eradicating the disease. The first malaria vaccine to show more than 75% efficacy has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford, according to The Lancet journal. This is a medical breakthrough and crosses the goal specified by the World...

The second wave of Covid-19 is claiming more lives, and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged the private sector for support in this emergency. Not only are government and private hospitals running out of beds, oxygen and medical personnel, they are turning critically ill patients away. In this scenario, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs...

Supporting the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, the CSR arm of Ambuja Cement, ACF has facilitated in vaccinating over 75,000 beneficiaries in Phase-2 of the national immunisation drive, including almost 70,000 at-risk community members, 621 frontline workers and staff of ACF. The Government of India rolled out the phase-wise COVID-19 vaccination programme in January 2021 to...