TVS Motors Joins Fight Against COVID-19, Promises Oxygen Delivery and ₹40 Crore Aid

New Delhi- TVS Motor Company joins the ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus by pledging to provide ₹40 Crore Aid. 

The two-wheeler manufacturing giant in a statement issued today announced that they along with the social arm of TVS Motor Company and Sundaram-Clayton Ltd called Srinivasan Services Trust will initiate action towards the eradication of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

TVS motors have pledged to provide lifesaving supplies such as oxygen concentrators, PPE Kits, medicines, and medical equipment across the country amid reports of shortages of such life-saving supplies due to the overburdening of India's healthcare infrastructure. 

In its statement, the two-wheeler manufacturing giant assured that they will deliver over 2000 oxygen concentrators to healthcare facilities across the country and over 20,000 food packets on a daily basis for workers in the state of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Himachal Pradesh involved in providing essential services.

Over a million face masks, thousands of oximeters, hand sanitisers, and essential medicines to more than 500 government health centres and hospitals are also included in the motor company list of COVID-19 SOS relief aid. Besides these, TVS motor company has also extended its helping hands towards the rural areas in the country which are under the grasp of this deadly infectious disease. 

"We are experiencing an unprecedented crisis due to the deadly second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in our country. This situation demands that we unify our efforts towards mitigating the severe impact of the pandemic. We are working with the Government to provide assistance to various health centres in rural India and create easy medical accessibility at the grassroots. We are focused on doing whatever it takes to alleviate and enhance the quality of lives of the communities we serve, as we have done in our 100-year history," stated Venu Srinivasan, Chairman of TVS Motor Company. 

The Motor Company is also collaborating with the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and Stanley Medical College Hospital in Chennai to provide supplies of relief aid for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. 

TVS Motor Company also launched two ambulances equipped with essential medical facilities for the immediate treatment of patients with mild Covid-19 symptoms for the rural areas surrounding their factories in Hosur and Mysore. 

Philanthropic endeavours undertaken by big corporations such as this can prove to be immensely instrumented to combat and contain this deadly infectious viral disease as its cases keep skyrocketing and spiralling beyond control with every passing day. 

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