NE BUSINESS BUREAU
CHENNAI, MAY 1
Voltas Limited has been taking proactive measures and initiatives to help the nation fight against the COVID-19 pandemic during lockdown.
As part of these concentrated efforts, Voltas continues to ensure the upkeep of essential services, focusing on the employee development and upgrading medical facilities to make them Covid-19 compliant. It plays a crucial role in maintaining the HVAC systems of various hospitals, cold storage units for dairy and blood banks, power distribution centres etc.
Voltas is helping in the conversion of existing medical facilities such as AIIMS, Bhatinda, and Guwahati Medical College and Hospital to convert standard wards into Covid-19 isolation wards using smart ventilation solutions.
This includes building test centres to predictive maintenance of Chillers in Hospitals and Pharmaceutical companies that make life-saving drugs, thus impacting millions of lives.
At Coimbatore in Tamilnadu the company has built a test centre at Kovai Medical College and Hospital (KMCH) to help the state contain the Covid-19 outbreak. Earlier a part of the academic block, the centre is now being used as an isolation ward for Covid-19 patients, after carrying out the necessary HVAC modifications.
Similar conversions are being undertaken by Voltas at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital, which is also one of the facilities across the country being upgraded to strengthen India’s fight against the pandemic.
In addition to this, Voltas is ensuring the maintenance of 14 Pharmaceutical Companies like Unique Pharma (Ahmedabad) and Encube Ethicals (Goa), 3 IT & ITES and 3 Airport Premises including Thiruvananthapuram Airport and Chennai airport. Voltas the operation and maintenance of a water treatment plant in Agra and two water pumping stations in Cuttack.
Voltas’ Operation & Maintenance (O&M) teams have been providing real time services to the “Essential Services” sites where customers need the operation, maintenance and breakdown support. We currently have 260 such customer sites in India.
Commenting on this, Pradeep Bakshi, MD& CEO, Voltas Limited said “As an organization, Voltas has always been committed to nation building, we have been fortunate to work on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic and have been helping the nation to fight against the same. We are truly grateful for our workforce that has not just dedicated themselves to the essential services that Voltas works with, but has also committed their time towards educating local communities on Covid-19 and sharing preventive measures that help them avoid the virus. Our local teams have touched thousands of lives through these programs.”
“Do it yourself’’ support for customers
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For customers who have bought Voltas appliances, the company continues assurance about not worrying about the warranty lapse during the period of COVID-19 restrictions. In order to help customers with servicing issues, Voltas is uploading ‘Do it yourself’ videos on YouTube to help them with basic maintenance that will result in immediate solutions.
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ll initiatives undertaken are in line with Voltas’ ethos of placing customers and employees at the core of its operations. Today, Voltas continues to closely monitor the situation across all centres in India and is working on taking cautionary and preventive measure to ensure the well-being of employees along with reliable delivery of services to essential service providers and customers, a release from the company said.
