Cooper Corporation, one of the leading manufacturers of engines, auto
components and gensets, has been actively engaged with local authorities to
revive Satara from the impact of the COVID-19. Yet again, the company stepped
up and participated in the fight against COVID-19 by supplying 13 gensets to
the district's hospitals and oxygen facilities.
The company has decided
to provide all the genset at a nominal fee of Rs.1/- as per the nominal lease
agreement. With the current surge in demand for oxygen, Satara's municipal
authorities have taken many measures, including the installation of oxygen
plants at twenty hospitals. Thus, the company has decided to provide 100 KVA
and 160 KVA diesel gensets to thirteen rural hospitals to support the
initiative.
The company has already
started the installations of generators for various oxygen plants at Phaltan
Sub-District Hospital as well as for rural hospitals at Koregaon, Kashil,
Medha, Dahivadi, Vaduz, Aundh, Somardi, Undale, Gondwale, Pimpode, Kaledhon and
Pusegaon. The oxygen plant at Kashil was recently inaugurated, and the company
has assured that all the power generators would be operational soon.
Cooper Corporation will
not only supply the gensets to the district hospital but will also
maintain them while they are in operation. Collector, Mr. Shekhar Singh,
Additional Collector, Mr. Ramchandra Shinde, and District Surgeon, Dr. Subhash
Chavan have all contributed to the project's success. Mr. R. Shinde, Mr. Nitin
Shinde, Mr. P. S. Shivdas, and the officers and staff of various hospitals have
played an important role.
Expressing his view Mr.
Farrokh Cooper, Chairman and Managing Director, Cooper Corporation, said, “Cooper Corporation
is determined to continue its support for the government, with a focus on
improving the overall healthcare infrastructure, to safeguard our country from
this pandemic. We have considerably increased our on-the-ground efforts to
assist COVID Warriors around the region. Over the last year, we have
collaboratively worked with the local authorities in Satara. Also, we
successfully vaccinated 3,000 officers, employees, and workers as part of the
vaccination drive.”
Apart from this, the
company has been involved in the fight against the pandemic in several
ways. It has initiated a drive to distribute more than 15,000 “Mask Booklets”
in Marathi language on ‘How to make a mask at home’ in association with
Satara Zilla Parishad for health workers. In collaboration with Satara
Municipal council, it conducted 30 full days of sanitizing drive across all parts
of Satara town, MIDC Satara, Waduj, Pusegaon & Palasi.
Another key concern area
was the frontline warriors like police officers who had been affected by the
coronavirus. To address the issue Cooper Corporation partnered with Satara
Police to distribute full-body protection COVID 19 PPE kit, Infra Thermometer,
Face shields and medication. The company also provided high-end ventilator
support to civil hospitals through the Grant Medical Foundation, Pune, to
strengthen the medical infrastructure in Satara.
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