Reliance opens India's first dedicated COVID-19 facility

IANS 23 March 2020

Economy & Nation

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Monday announced it has set up India's first dedicated COVID-10 hospital with 100-bed capacity in a short span of just two weeks.

Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital in collaboration with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up the COVID-19 facility at Seven Hills Hospital in Mumbai, the company said in a statement.

Funded by Reliance Foundation, the COVID-19 facility includes a negative pressure room that helps in preventing cross contamination and helps control infection.

All beds are equipped with the required infrastructure, bio-medical equipments such as ventilators, pacemakers, dialysis machine and patient monitoring devices.

The foundation has also offered to set up special medical facilities to quarantine travellers from notified countries and suspected cases through contact tracing to quickly augment additional facilities for isolation and treatment of infected patients.

RIL has also built a fully-equipped isolation facility in Lodhivali, Maharashtra.

"Reliance Life Sciences is importing additional test kits and consumables for effective testing. Our doctors and researchers are also working overtime to find a cure for this deadly virus," said the company.

The company said it has deployed the combined strengths of Reliance Foundation, reliance Retail, Jio, Reliance Life Sciences, Reliance Industries and all 6 lakh members of the Reliance family on the action plan against COVID-19.

Masks and Personnel Protective Suits for Health-workers: RIL is enhancing its production capacities to produce 100,000 face-masks per day and a large number of personal protective equipments (PPEs), such as suits and garments, for the nation’s health-workers to equip them further to fight the coronavirus challenge.

Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, a world-class healthcare institution in Mumbai, has also offered to set up special medical facilities to quarantine travellers from notified countries and suspected cases identified through contact tracing. This will quickly augment additional facilities for isolation and treatment of infected patients.

Free Meals in Various Cities: Reliance Foundation will provide free meals to people across various cities in partnership with NGOs to offer necessary livelihood relief in the current crisis situation.

Isolation Facility at Lodhivali: RIL has built a fully-equipped isolation facility in Lodhivali, Maharashtra and handed it over to the District authorities.

Reliance Life Sciences is importing additional test kits and consumables for effective testing. Our doctors and researchers are also working overtime to find a cure for this deadly virus.

RIL has also announced an initial support of Rs5 crore to Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.

Reliance has also decided to provide free fuel for all Emergency Service vehicles used to transport:

Covid-19 patients (service is provided only for vehicle used for Covid-19 patients and as per list provided by Government agencies, to ensure efficient impact and withdrawal post end of pandemic) to and from quarantine and isolation facilities. Quarantined people on the basis of lists provided by Government agencies.

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Meenal Mamdani

6 years ago

Those who can afford to walk into Harkisandas Hospital of old or the new Reliance Hospital at Prarthana Samaj area in Mumbai do not need any help or information from this newsletter. It is one of the most expensive hospitals in Mumbai and I am sure it provides excellent care.

If Reliance really wants to do some philanthropy, which has been minuscule from this massively wealthy corporate entity thus far, it should for a start continue to pay their low tier employees, even those who are losing jobs due to closure or reduced hours of their retail units.

Then it could give away free food to all the daily wage earners in Mumbai. This action would also help the farmers who are suffering because of a drop in demand.