Bengaluru, 17 July 2020: Sensing the urgency to control rapidly spreading Pandemic,Hindustan Aeronautics limited (HAL) has converted its Ghatage Convention Centre located on Old Airport Road into a Covid-19 Care Center (CCC) and handed it over to Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) here today. The facility has 160 beds and other supporting infrastructure like toilets, bath rooms etc. was created within 16 days, said, R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL. "Initially, the facility would be utilised for treatment of asymptomatic COVID-19 positive patients", informed Alok Verma, Director HR of the company.
An MoU was signed between HAL, represented by Venkateswara Rao, GM (CSR) and BBMP, represented by R Venkatachalapathy, Joint Commissioner, Mahadevapura Zone in the presence of senior Government and HAL officials. Arrangements of doctors and paramedical staff and running of the facility would be taken care by BBMP.
As part of its fight against COVID-19 pandemic, HAL has already contributed Rs 26.25 crores to the PM-CARES Fund (Rs 20 crores under CSR head with employees contributing another 6.25 crores). HAL-produced 300 aerosol boxes which are used in hospitals, have been handed over to various state governments like Karnataka, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The company has distributed personal protective equipment and thousands of masks besides supporting migrant labour by providing them food and shelter. HAL has identified over 600 beds to be utilised as a quarantine facility at its seven locations - Lucknow, Kanpur, Korwa, Hyderabad, Nasik, Koraput and Bengaluru.
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