Corporate response to India’s second wave – some examples Amazon said it would bear the businesstoday. Accenture cost of airlifting these oxygen in%2Fcurrent%2Feconomy- Partnering with Oxfam and Charities concentrators and BiPAP machines, politics%2Fapple-to-donate-to- Aid Foundation in India. Enabled by procured through multiple funders. covid-support-relief-efforts-in-india- Accenture, Oxfam provides digital tim-cook%2Fstory%2F437709.html training sessions for community “Covid-19 has severely impacted workers and with Charities Aid India in unimaginable ways. We Foundation, PPE for healthcare stand firmly with the country, workers. deploying our global logistics Delhivery network to urgently airlift the Logistics unicorn Delhivery’s chief Source: https://www.accenture.com/ needed oxygen concentrators to executive officer Sahil Barua wrote us-en/about/corporate-citizenship/ support the nation’s immediate on LinkedIn that they are ‘flying coronavirus-societal-response need,” said Amit Agarwal, global charters into India with oxygen senior vice president and country concentrators and other essential head, Amazon India. supplies and can build more Adani Group capacity on demand. Adani Group, importing four Source: https://www.business- standard.com/article/current-affairs/ Source: https://www.moneycontrol. cryogenic tanks with 80-tonne liquid com/news/india/covid-19-second- oxygen from Saudi Arabia. It is also covid-19-second-wave-amazon- to-airlift-over-10-000-oxygen- wave-delhivery-announces-flying- procuring 5,000 medical-grade charters-into-india-with-oxygen- oxygen cylinders from Linde Saudi concentrators-121042600013_1. html concentrators-other-essential- Arabia. supplies-6810811.html “We are on an urgent mission to secure oxygen supplies from across Apple the world. This first shipment of 4 Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that Facebook ISO cryogenic tanks with 80 tonnes the company will donate to support Facebook founder and CEO Mark of liquid oxygen is on its way from relief efforts on the ground. Zuckerberg expressed his solidarity Dammam to Mundra” Adani group with India on his platform: chairman Gautam Adani tweeted. “Amid a devastating rise of COVID cases in India, our thoughts are “I’m thinking of everyone in India Source: https://timesofindia. with the medical workers, our and hoping we get this virus indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/ Apple family and everyone there under control soon. Facebook is adani-group-joins-efforts- who is fighting through this awful working with UNICEF to help people to-secure-medical-oxygen/ stage of the pandemic. Apple will understand when they should go to articleshow/82248424.cms be donating to support and relief the hospital and giving $10 million to efforts on the ground,” Tim Cook emergency response efforts. More tweeted on Tuesday. soon, and I hope you stay healthy,” Amazon India he wrote in a Facebook post. 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The supply includes spread critical information. This from the organisation to express our Godrej Protekt sanitizers which will includes two grants from Google. gratitude to our employees,” Vinay be used for patients and healthcare org, Google’s philanthropic arm, Razdan, Group Head HR, HDFC workers, who are at the frontlines in totalling 20 Crore INR (USD 2.6 Bank, said. this pandemic. The donation will be million). The first is to GiveIndia to utilized across 13 hospitals of the provide cash assistance to families Source: https://www.business- Ujala Cygnus Group of Hospitals hit hardest by the crisis to help standard.com/article/pti-stories/ spread over Delhi, Haryana, with their everyday expenses. The hdfc-bank-to-cover-vaccination- Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. second will go to UNICEF to help get cost-of-employees-family- urgent medical supplies, including members-121031200853_1.html Source: https://indiacsr.in/ oxygen and testing equipment, to csr-godrej-and-ujala-cygnus- where it’s needed most in India. hospital-group-partner-for-an- initiative-to-beat-the-ongoing- “It also includes donations from Hindustan Unilever Consumer goods giant Hindustan wave-of-covid-19/ our ongoing employee giving Unilever said it will provide 4,000 campaign — so far, more than oxygen concentrators to India to 900 Googlers have contributed help meet the medical oxygen 3.7 Crore INR (USD 500,000) for Goldman Sachs requirement of home-bound organizations supporting high-risk Global financial services giant patients and hospitals amid the and marginalized communities,” Goldman Sachs announced an devastating second wave of Sanjay Gupta India’s Google head additional USD 10 million support Covid-19. to help India fight the surge in said in a statement. 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Sachs offices, and we have a in%2Fcurrent%2Feconomy- responsibility to respond and politics%2Fapple-to-donate-to- “The entire Unilever family is rallying provide our firm’s support and covid-support-relief-efforts-in-india- together to support India in this assistance,” its chairman and chief tim-cook%2Fstory%2F437709.html moment of crisis by helping secure executive David M Solomon said. oxygen concentrators which are “We are proud to support India in in severe short supply,” said Sanjiv combating this crisis, helping to HDFC Mehta, chairman of HUL. augment its medical infrastructure HDFC Bank has announced that Source: https://economictimes. and drive vaccination efforts,” its it will bear the cost of vaccination indiatimes.com/news/ chairman and chief executive for of over 100,000 employees and company/corporate-trends/ India, Sonjoy Chatterjee, said. their immediate family members hul-to-donate-4000-oxygen- against coronavirus. HDFC Bank, concentrators-in-tie-up-with- Source: https://www.goldmansachs. India’s largest private bank in terms portea/articleshow/82507411. com/media-relations/press- of m-cap, said it would reimburse cms?from=mdr releases/2021/relief-and-recovery- vaccination costs for the two india.html mandated doses. Infosys Jindal industries Procter & Gamble The company has set up COVID-19 In Haryana, the OP Jindal Modern Procter & Gamble said it would care centres for its employees as School operated by Jindal Stainless contribute Rs50 crore to vaccinate well as their families. Currently, the in Hisar is converted into a covid over 5 lakh citizens through centres are located in Pune and emergency hospital with ICU beds. partnerships with government and Bengaluru and are in process of Given the pandemic, the oxygen local authorities in India. setting up similar facilities across its plant at the Hisar facility of Jindal “In the current situation and going major offices in India. Stainless runs up to a capacity forward, vaccines play a critical of 150 per cent. The plant has “In order to support employees role in containing the spread of the increased its oxygen production and their family members who virus,” Madhusudan Gopalan, CEO, capacity to 7.5 -8 MT per day from 6 have contracted COVID-19 and P&G Indian Subcontinent, said, MT per day. need special medical care beyond without disclosing the states where home quarantine, Infosys has set up “With a country-first motto in mind, it plans to offer free vaccines. Employee COVID Care Centres in we are ready to supply more oxygen Pune and Bengaluru.” to hospitals even if this is at the Source: https://us.pg.com/blogs/pg- expense of the production,” he said. india-supports-vaccine-efforts/ Source: https://analyticsindiamag.