FICCI calls upon industries to extend help in Covid fight
According the chamber, several Calcutta-based business houses have already come up with support and more are expected to join
Business chamber Ficci has called upon industries to extend help to mitigate the challenges faced by Bengal in managing the pandemic. It has asked its members to provide supplies of masks, oxygen cylinders and concentrators, apart from re-skilling paramedics in life-saving medical devices such as ventilators.
Several Calcutta-based business houses have already come up with support and more are expected to join, the chamber said. The interventions by the industry has so far been pivotal in easing the supply of medical oxygen, setting up first-level Covid care facilities and importing protective gears such as 3-ply masks.