Israeli MNC donates oxygen generation plants, storage tanks worth Rs 3 crore

ADAMA India, an Israeli-based MNC in Hyderabad, has donated oxygen generation plants and storage tanks worth Rs 3 crore to multiple hospitals in the country as part of its ongoing community support initiative towards India’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, besides initiating other healthcare support measures.

Eight oxygen generation plants and two oxygen storage tanks will soon be installed in Mahavir Hospital and Research Centre, in Hyderabad, District Government Hospital, Nandyal, and Pushpalata Government Hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Gudivada.

The ESIC Hospital in Ghaziabad was the first to get the installation of an oxygen generation plant. Other government and trust hospitals that await to finish the installation in the next few weeks are in Ballari (Karnataka), Morena, Sheopur and Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Pune (Maharashtra) and Bathinda (Punjab).

ADAMA India has also donated high-flow nasal oxygen sets, autoclave machines, Maglumi analyser machines, along with reagent kits, fogger machines, N95 Masks, face shields and medicines.

Contribution to Pm Cares Fund, Cmrfs
The company has also contributed to the PM CARES Fund and Chief Minister Relief Funds (CMRFs) and donated water purification plants, solar water heaters and cement benches to several villages across the country.

The Covid-19 pandemic has raised the global oxygen demand and made the delivery of oxygen supplies more urgent, including access to oxygen equipment.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), oxygen is an essential medicine used in the treatment of patients in times of surgery, trauma, heart failure, asthma, pneumonia, and maternal and child care.

For instance, pneumonia alone accounts for 800,000 deaths per year. It is estimated that 20 to 40 per cent of these deaths could be prevented with the availability of oxygen therapy. India Today