OdishaPlus Bureau
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), a Navratrna CPSE under the Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India is now supporting the 70-bedded Covid Centre at Saheed Laxman Naik Medical College at Koraput to make it fully operational. Similarly, NALCO is supporting a 66-bedded Covid healthcare facility at ESI Hospital, Banarpal, Angul by bearing the cost of the total operation and maintenance of the facility.
The latest initiative by the Company will provide a safety net to the people residing in Angul and Koraput districts, where the Company’s operating units are located. Furthermore, NALCO has also consented to strengthen the supply of the life-saving Oxygen by providing DG sets to State Govt. for uninterrupted power supply in oxygen units.
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the company has developed a 200-bedded Covid Hospital in Nabarangpur and runs two Covid Care Centres at NALCO’s Hospitals in Angul & Damanjodi.
CMD, NALCO Sridhar Patra said, “As a responsible Corporate, NALCO collective has always stood with the people of Odisha in difficult times and now we are reaffirming our commitment in mitigating the disaster caused by the pandemic in every way possible.”
NALCO has provided a refrigerated truck having a capacity 25,70,000 vaccine (doses) to state immunization cell for safe transportation of vaccines across Odisha. Also, the Company has extended support to the State Health Department for procurement of Ventilator Ambulances at a cost of 1.16 crores.
The Company has also been carrying out vaccination drives at sites & extensive sanitization drives at offices, townships, and peripheral areas apart from distribution of dry ration, masks and sanitisers to the Covid Warriors & people in need.