NHPC airlifts medical materials to Imphal
New Delhi: Keeping in view COVID-19 pandemic and 21 days countrywide lockdown to fight the crisis, in a major humanitarian gesture, NHPC Limited, India’s premier hydropower company has arranged airlifting 2.6 metric tonnes of medical materials for Government of Manipur from New Delhi to Imphal on March 28. AK Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, NHPC said, “NHPC is fully committed to stand with the nation in this moment of crisis and has already earmarked Rs 4.5 crore to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The timely supply of medical material is most crucial and therefore we have aided the airlifting of medical material to Imphal which is remotely located and difficult to reach by road.”
NTPC with nation to fight against Coronavirus
New Delhi: NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power producer, has stepped up it’s vigil against global pandemic of COVID-19 by converting it’s hospitals into dedicated Covid-19 units. NTPC has already utilised its 45 hospitals/health units to make isolation facilities and procured requisite number of equipment for the medical staff to handle such cases effectively. As many as 121 beds, with all facilities, have been turned into isolation wards in these hospitals.