Bhubaneswar, June 29: Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has dedicated second COVID facility to the people of Odisha, developed at Eklavya Model Residential School, in Deogarh.
With the new COVID facility at Deogarh, and a similar one at Kalahandi, Vedanta has added 300 critical care beds to bolster Odisha’s medical infrastructure, aiding the state’s efforts to provide timely and proper care to the critically ailing patients.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, opened the hospital to public in a virtual ceremony, in the presence of Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan, Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal and Vedanta Ltd Aluminium Business CEO Rahul Sharma.
Set up under the aegis of the Anil Agarwal Foundation, both hospitals have been funded by Vedanta Aluminium and will be managed by the Government of Odisha.
The COVID facility at Deogarh has 100 beds and is fully oxygenated with 12 Intensive Care Units (ICU), 32 High Dependency Units (HDU), a Paediatric COVID ICU, and a dedicated team of doctors and medical staff to render medical services to the patients. The new hospital is the last of Vedanta’s COVID field hospitals and facilities established across the country.Vedanta has set up more than 1,000 critical care beds across India, of which Odisha has been supported with one of the highest number of beds.
Dedicating the hospital to public, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that, “With the support of Vedanta Group, we had started a 200-bed hospital at Kalahandi, and today we dedicated a 100-bed hospital at Deogarh.”
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the hospital will go a long way towards fighting COVID in Odisha.
Through its Aluminium Business, Vedanta has already vaccinated nearly 30,000 people in its ecosystem, including employees, business partners and their family members residing in Odisha. Since the outbreak of the pandemic last year, Vedanta continues to support the state’s COVID management effort in various ways.
