Samsung India Donates Medical Kits, Oxygen Concentrators to Help Karnataka Fight Against COVID-19

Samsung India has introduced that the corporate donated 14,000 medical kits, 24 oxygen concentrators, and 150 oxygen cylinders to Karnataka, supporting its struggle towards the present surge of COVID-19 instances. As a part of this assist, Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore (SRI-B), which is the most important R&D centre of Samsung outdoors Korea, has collaborated with Shrimad Rajchandra Sarvamangal Trust (SRST) for distributing medical kits to the state authorities. In a weblog put up, the corporate says these kits can be distributed to sufferers in house isolation. Whereas, the 14 oxygen concentrators can be donated to charitable hospitals working in direction of COVID-19 reduction. These concentrators, which have been flown in from South Korea, can be utilized by sufferers from weaker sections of the society. Samsung says the state authorities can be equipped with ten oxygen concentrators quickly.

In addition to the help for Karnataka, Samsung had earlier pledged $5 million (roughly Rs 37 crores) to India’s struggle towards COVID-19. The firm says it had additionally supplied donations to central and state governments and boosting the healthcare sector with important medical tools for hospitals together with 100 oxygen concentrators, 3,000 oxygen cylinders and a million LDS syringes. Samsung had additionally introduced it might cowl the vaccination prices for over 50,000 eligible staff and beneficiaries in India. Its staff in India are additionally receiving “end-to-end COVID care” and teleconsultation with doctors, RT-PCR tests, home packages with remote medical care. South Korean tech giant and Samsung’s biggest domestic rival LG had pledged financial assistance of $5.5 million to India in the fight against the deadly second wave of COVID-19. Several other tech giants – domestic and international – have all come forward to aid India’s with its battle against COVID. Earlier in May, Twitter announced $15 million funding to help address the COVID-19 crisis in the country.