Covid Crisis: IT major Capgemini to aid in India’s health infrastructure woes
The Rs 50-crore fund will be used to build ICU facilities, oxygen generation plants, other long-term medical infrastructure, and relief operations.
The IT major Capgemini has announced that it will donate Rs 50 crore to expand the medical infrastructure in India to tackle the COVID-19 crisis.
The company is also contributing Rs 5 crore to UNICEF to provide immediate support across India for critical COVID-19 response care.
It plans to set up three oxygen generation plants and RT-PCR testing machines to push the government’s efforts to fight against the pandemic.
The Rs 50-crore fund will be used to build ICU facilities, oxygen generation plants, other long-term medical infrastructure, and relief operations.
The CEO of Capgemini Aiman Ezzat said, “The health and safety of our employees and the communities we live in remain our top priority. This second wave of the pandemic in India has been particularly challenging, and we want to ensure all our support to fight this pandemic and come out stronger.”
In the previous year, the company’s Social Response Unit (SRU) had provided 65 fully equipped ICU beds to three BMC hospitals in Mumbai, 100 Oxygen Concentrators (OC), and 65 High Flow Nasal Cannulas (HFNC) to 15 government hospitals across Bengaluru.
Like Capgemini, many organizations across the spectrum have come forward to source and donate oxygenators, breathing machines, and ventilators.
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