Real estate companies and leather goods manufacturing units are rushing to get their workers vaccinated to restore normality in their sectors.
Construction work at most sites had come to a standstill with stricter Covid curbs coming into force across the state on May 16. Work has resumed since June 1 but at a slow pace because of a lack of enough personnel and other reasons.
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The demand for processed leather and finished goods from Europe and the US is increasing but production in the tanneries and leather goods units has been tardy because of shortage of personnel.
Business owners said the failure to get workers vaccinated against Covid in large numbers was the principal reason for production not picking up. Another reason is that many workers are still stuck in their hometowns and villages as the curbs are yet to be lifted.
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While Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month announced USD 18 million donations, Amazon said 1,000 Medtronic ventilators will be delivered to India.
Microsoft said it would work to provide India with 1,000 ventilators and 25,000 oxygen concentration devices.
Tata Group made about 5,000 beds available to Covid patients through its group companies and ITC set up a 200-bed makeshift hospital in Kishore Bharati Stadium, given by West Bengal government, for Covid patients in a record 72 hours.
As India suffers the world s worst outbreak of COVID-19 cases, global and domestic corporate giants are pitching in resources from airlifting of medical equipment, making medical oxygen, and setting up hospitals to supplement a public health system buckling under the weight of surging infections and deaths.
New Delhi, May 9
As India suffers the world’s worst outbreak of COVID-19 cases, global and domestic corporate giants are pitching in resources from airlifting of medical equipment, making medic
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Companies have set up Covid hospitals, airlifted cryogenic tankers from abroad for transporting medical oxygen and contributed funds to aid the Covid battle, according to company announcements and industry sources.
A host of corporates also contributed hundreds of crores of rupees to PM-Care and other funds as also supplying PPE kits and medicines.
As India suffers the world s worst outbreak of COVID-19 cases, global and domestic corporate giants are pitching in resources from airlifting of medical equipment, making medical oxygen and setting up hospitals to supplement a public health system buckling under the weight of surging infections and deaths.
Private hospitals hire doctors and nurses for Covid field units The health centres are focusing on large spaces where more than hundred beds can be set up for the patients
Private hospitals that are setting up Covid field hospitals in auditoriums and stadiums are recruiting nurses and doctors and redeploying doctors from departments where the patient count has dropped to run the temporary treatment centres.
The hospitals are focusing on large spaces where more than hundred beds can be set up for Covid patients, rather than opening off-site hospitals in multiple locations with only a handful of beds in each.