Mahindra Group will immediately begin work to explore how its factories could make ventilators, chairman Anand Mahindra said on Sunday.
New Delhil| As India observed ‘Janata curfew’ to prevent the spread of COVID-19 Sunday, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra took to Twitter to offer help to the government, in a bid to strengthen the efforts to combat the disease.
In a five-part tweet, the industrialist also expressed his fears that India is already in ‘Stage 3’ of the transmission of the coronavirus, which is community transmission, and said this could cause an exponential rise in the number of cases “putting a huge strain on medical infrastructure”, creating the need for temporary hospitals and ventilators.
Mahindra further said that his company’s Projects Team is also ready to help the government or the army to erect the temporary care facilities. Elaborating on the same, Mahinda explained that we needed to create scores of temporary hospitals and we have a scarcity of ventilators. The facilities are needed as India is currently in Stage 2 of the outbreak, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and is headed into Stage 3, which is community transmission.
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“We need to create scores of temporary hospitals and we have a scarcity of ventilators. To help in the response of this unprecedented threat, we at the Mahindra Group will immediately begin work on how our manufacturing facilities can make ventilators,” Mahindra said in a series of tweets.
Furthermore, Anand Mahindra has announced that he will donate 100 per cent of his salary towards creating a fund to assist the businesses in the Mahindra value chain and has asked other verticals in the group to add to the same in their respective ecosystems.
He also said that the Mahindra Foundation, the group’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm, would create a fund to assist the hardest-hit stakeholders in the value chain, including small businesses and self-employed individuals.
In a similar initiative, Vedanta Resources Ltd chairman Anil Agarwal said on Sunday that he will commit ₹100 crores towards fighting the pandemic.
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