TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 4, 2021 With hospitals across India facing oxygen shortage amid the tumultuous second wave of Covid-19, country’s leading digital financial services platform Paytm today announced that Paytm Foundation will be setting up oxygen plants in 12-13 cities as hospitals across the nation. These oxygen plants would be directly installed at hospitals, which would serve the ...
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UK to send 1,000 more ventilators ahead of Modi-Johnson virtual talks on Tuesday
TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 3, 2021 The British government will send 1,000 more ventilators from its surplus supply to Indian hospitals. This will be in addition to 200 ventilators, 495 oxygen concentrators and three oxygen generation units the UK has announced as part of its assistance package last week. Apart from providing medical supplies, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty ...
Read More »JSPL Angul Plant supplies 100 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen daily
TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 3, 2021 With the demand for medical oxygen jumping manifold amid the second wave of Covid-19 in the country, leading steelmaker Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) – as a responsible corporate citizen – has been supplying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) from its 6 MTPA mega steel complex at Angul since April 2021. The Angul unit ...
Read More »COVID-19: Vedanta Lanjigarh provides 10K RT-PCR Test kits to District Headquarters Hospital, Bhawanipatna
TBB BUREAU LANJIGARH, MAY 3, 2021 The Lanjigarh Unit of Vedanta Limited, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, has come forward to support the Government and District Administration in their fight against COVID-19. As part of its corporate social responsibility, the unit has provided 100 sets of RT-PCR Test kits to the District Headquarters Hospital, Bhawanipatna. With each set ...
Read More »Covid-19: SAIL to set up additional 2,500 beds with gaseous oxygen facilities
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 1, 2021 With the Covid-19 cases rising at an alarming rate in the country, state-run Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is planning to set up jumbo medical facilities of about 2,500 beds with gaseous oxygen (GOX) for Covid treatment. This will be in addition to the facilities currently available at SAIL’s five integrated steel ...
Read More »Govt permits oxygen concentrator imports via post, courier for personal use under gift category
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 1, 2021 Amid increasing demand for oxygen due to rapid surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, the government has allowed imports of oxygen concentrators for personal use through post, courier or e-commerce portals under the ‘gifts’ category, the Ministry of Commerce & Industry said on Saturday. The exemption for oxygen concentrators is allowed till ...
Read More »Reliance Industries becomes largest producer of medical Oxygen
TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, MAY 1, 2021 As India grapples with an unprecedented new wave of the Covid Pandemic, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has scaled up its production of medical grade liquid oxygen, thus becoming the country’s largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location in just over a year’s time. Traditionally, Reliance is not a manufacturer of medical ...
Read More »Apex Laboratories gets approval for Clevira as Covid supportive drug
PRIYABRAT BISWAL BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 30, 2021 Chennai-based pharmaceutical company Apex Laboratories Private Limited on Friday launched its antiviral herbal formulation ‘Clevira’ that got the Central government’s approval as a supporting measure for mild to moderate condition of Covid-19, a senior official of the company said. Apex Laboratories said it has got the approval from the Ministry of Ayush for Clevira ...
Read More »Bharat Biotech cuts vaccine price for states to Rs.400 per dose
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 29, 2021 Following widespread criticism of its pricing policy, Bharat Biotech on Thursday announced a cut in price of its COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’ it plans to sell to the States to Rs 400 per dose from the earlier Rs 600. To recall Bharat Biotech sold Covaxin to the central government at Rs ...
Read More »UK sends oxygen factories to help India in fight against Covid-19
TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 29, 2021 At a time when India is facing an acute shortage of oxygen supply amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, the United Kingdom has sent more vital oxygen equipment to India in support of the country’s fight against COVID-19. Three oxygen generation units have been sent from surplus stocks in Northern Ireland to support India ...
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