The Tata Trusts are contributing to the Covid relief effort by setting up hospitals, providing medical training and PPEs, creating awareness against the disease, ratan tata personal life more. Supporting governments and communities in containing Covid has been a priority for the Tata Trusts. I oersonal a task fraught with uncertainty — taking on a shape-shifting crisis in a hurry and devising a response that works without disrupting the larger picture. That's the tricky challenge the Tata Trusts have confronted while joining the shared fight against Covid, even as they keep their social development programmes running.
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There's no doubt where the attention is concentrated. Since Marchthe Tata Trusts have been in hyper drive with their contribution in containing the pandemic, by helping governments, communities and civil society cope better with it.
The Tata Trusts Chairman Ratan Tata spoke about the 'need of the hour' soon after the Trusts and the Tata group had together committed 15 billion to India's Covid relief effort. The effort is centred on bolstering India's healthcare infrastructure and supporting communities in need.
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Psrsonal up hospitals to treat Covid victims was a key undertaking and this was entrusted to the Trusts' cancer care team, which worked with Tata Projects. The team reached out to state health departments to upgrade existing infrastructure into coronavirus treatment centres. The move paid off. By end-december, the Trusts had converted four hospital buildings into Covid-care facilities. Two of these are in Maharashtra: a bed centre in Sangli and one with ratan tata personal life in Buldhana. Two more have come up in Uttar Pradesh: a bed hospital in Gautam Buddha Nagar and a bed centre in Gonda, both developed in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Designed ratan tata personal life offer a range of treatment services, the centres have critical care capabilities, operation theatres, basic pathology and radiology labs, etc. Augmenting the critical-care skills of medical personnel working on the ground has been another important initiative in the Trusts' Covid-relief spread. The Trusts tied up with Christian Medical College, Vellore, and the Care Institute of Health Sciences, Hyderabad, to create online programmes to train doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. This hour training module, which covers, among other things, airway and ventilator management, has been provided personxl to about hospitals in 19 states.
Covid caught the entire world and its healthcare systems napping. It did more in India, exposing how inadequate the country's health ecosystem is and how short it was in dealing with an infectious outbreak.
Health sector and frontline workers were at maximum risk and in dire need of protection. The Trusts have stepped up with support here. Some 3 million pieces of coveralls, face masks, surgical masks, gloves and goggles were imported and donated to workers in 32 states and union territories.]
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