India's fight against Covid-19 receives a cumulative boost of Rs 101 crore from Rotary India
Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: Rotary India as is their wont has been contributing in many ways to fight the COVID-19 battle, including contributing Rs 26 crore to the PM Cares Fund, the organisation said in a release.
The organisation has also contributed Rs 75 crore worth of supplies to different COVID 19 affected states of India.
The cumulative support towards the combat pandemic initiative has been to the tune of Rs 101 crore, which includes nearly one crore masks, two lakh litres of sanitizers, 75,000 units of PPE, 6.5 lakh packets of food grains, 25 lakh meals, Rs. 20 crore worth of medical equipments and 3,500 hours of medical counselling.
The organisation has also allocated a large number of its hospitals across India as quarantine centres.
Recently interacting with the over 350 Rotarians, led by Rotary International President Nominee Shekhar Mehta, the Union Health Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan praised the efforts of Rotary India and thanked them for their contribution to the PM-Cares fund as well as the material contributions as providing equipment, sanitisers, food, PPE kits and N95 mask to the hospitals, the release said.
Rotary India had played a crucial role in making India a polio free country, and it aims to implement a similar working plan to stem the spread of the COID-19 in the future, the organisation said in its release.
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