NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, MAY 9
JK Paper on Sunday said it has made a temporary 50-bedded arrangement with oxygen facility at its Singhania Public School at Songadh in Gujarat and handed it over to the district administration for treating COVID-19 patients.
The company has laid a 1.1-km-long pipeline from the mill premises of its Songadh unit to supply to the temporary arrangement at the school, JK Paper said in a statement.
“JK Paper management has made temporary 30-bedded arrangement with oxygen facility at its Singhania Public School and handed over to the district administration for treating COVID-19-affected patients and its management,” the company said in the statement.
JK Paper will provide power, water, ambulance and oxygen round the clock to the facility and will always be available to provide for any help possible in future, it added.
The company further said its manufacturing units at Rayagada Odisha and Sirpur Paper Mills at Telangana have also put up oxygen generation plant to serve the local community.
Last month, the company donated two ventilators to Janak Smarak Hospital, Vyara, and also purchased 10 oxygen concentrators to help save critical patients needing oxygen, it said.
The company added that in the past two months, JK Paper Management is continuously supporting district administration in the current vaccination drive to combat the spread of the virus.
L&T donates ventilators to Surat, hands over equipment to BJP chief
EPC major Larsen & Toubro on Sunday said it has donated 24 ventilators to designated COVID care hospitals in South Gujarat amid the surging infection cases. The medical equipment was handed by the company to C R Paatil, a Member of Parliament who also heads the BJP in Gujarat in the presence of other officials, a statement said.
The company has procured and supplied 24 ventilators in an effort to immediately alleviate the shortage of medical equipment in South Gujarat as the infections are increasing, the statement said.
The ventilators have been provided to SMIMER, Civil and other dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in South Gujarat, it added.
Gujarat CSR Authority chief executive M Thennaresan had requested the company to provide high-end ventilators to dedicated COVID-19 hospitals, the company statement said.
