Mysore/Mysuru: With the current COVID-19 second wave creating havoc resulting in many being hospitalised for treatment, people suffering from hunger, jobless with no money for treatment and medicines and even to buy food grains, members of various associations, organisations and corporates have jumped in to serve the needy. Also, many organisations are donating grocery kits, medicines, medical equipment and other necessary items to the District Administration and the MCC to be utilised during the pandemic and also to be distributed to the poor and the needy.

Mythri Jain Milan has donated medicines, semi PPE kits, surgical masks, head caps, medical scrubs and hand wash soap solutions to COVID Mitra Centre at Vijayanagar in city which is maintained by the MCC, MUDA and concerned Gram Panchayats.

We Care Social Foundation which had stepped in to help the needy during last year’s pandemic by donating and distributing free tablets and grocery kits to poor and needy diabetic and blood pressure patients, are now providing the service of 28 Oxygen Concentrators at the doorstep of poor patients free of cost. 

About 50 volunteers are    working in two shifts and are helping the patients procure beds at hospitals besides educating COVID positive patients on how to handle COVID situation  and about self isolation. The Foundation has also started free High Resolution CT Scan for needy patients at a Diagnostic Centre. 

Rane (Madras) Ltd., Mysuru, has come forward in the fight against COVID-19 by donating 50 BIPAP Oxygen Masks and an ECG Machine through their CSR fund to support the District Administration in its fight against the pandemic. The medical equipment was handed over by Rane (Madras) Ltd. General Manager V.P. Murugan and HR Manager K. Sagar to Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri and Additional DC Dr. B.S. Manjunathaswamy.   

Credit Access Grameen Limited (CAGL) has donated N-95 masks and sanitiser bottles to journalists and the same were handed over to Mysuru District Journalists Association (MDJA) President S.T. Ravikumar by CAGL Regional Manager Muthuraj recently. CAGL Zonal Manager Vinay Kumar, Branch Manager Anil Kumar, MDJA General Secretary M. Subramanya, City Secretary P. Rangaswamy and others were present on the occasion.