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India is in great distress due to the killer second wave of COVID and people are shaken up with the fear of the unknown amidst the crumbling medical infrastructure and facilities. In this heart-rending scenario, corporates from across the world have stepped in to provide help and support , including the much needed medicines and oxygen to Indians.
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc has decided to donate medicines worth over $70 million, which are essential for COVID treatment. In a tweet, Albert Burla, chairman and chief executive (CEO) of Pfizer says, Right now, Pfizer colleagues at distribution centres in the US, Europe and Asia are hard at work rushing shipments of Pfizer medicines that the government of India has identified as part of their COVID treatment protocol. We are donating enough of these medicines to ensure that every COVID patient in every public hospital across India can have access to them in the next 90 days free of charge. This effort has the potent
The company will create additional capacity of 1,000 critical care beds. Vedanta on Thursday said its Chairman Anil Agarwal has pledged ₹ 150 crore to help India in its fight against deadly COVID-19 second wave. The amount is over and above ₹ 201 crore that was spent by Vedanta Group in 2020, it said in a statement. Anil Agarwal.has pledged ₹ 150 crore to help the country in its fight against the rapidly spreading second wave of COVID-19, Vedanta said. The company will create additional capacity of 1,000 critical care beds in 10 cities across the country in an effort to support the Centre and states in this challenging times.
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The amount is over and above Rs 201 crore that was spent by Vedanta Group in 2020.
The company will create additional capacity of 1,000 critical care beds in 10 cities. Each facility will have 100 beds in an air-conditioned tent with full electrical support and designed specifically for COVID care.
Vedanta on Thursday said its Chairman Anil Agarwal has pledged Rs 150 crore to help India in its fight against deadly COVID-19 second wave. The amount is over and above Rs 201 crore that was spent by Vedanta Group in 2020, it said in a statement. Anil Agarwal.has pledged Rs 150 crore to help the country in its fight against the rapidly spreading second wave of COVID-19, Vedanta said.
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The unit in Thoothukudi has two plants that can produce a total of 1,050 tonnes of medical oxygen per day.
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NEW DELHI/THOOTHUKUDI: At a time when the country is facing an acute shortage of oxygen to treat Covid patients, mining firm Vedanta on Thursday filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to reopen its Thoothukudi copper smelter plant to manufacture oxygen. The unit in Thoothukudi has two plants that can produce a total of 1,050 tonnes of medical oxygen per day.