GMCH Aurangabad is the only state-run dedicated covid hospital (DCH) in Aurangabad division, which gets patients from Jalna, Parbhani, Hingoli and Aurangabad districts.
Employees of automobile company Skoda Auto Volkswagen, India, which runs a plant in Aurangabad, contributed a day¡¯s salary and raised Rs 1.2 crore.
The corpus was used to donate 1,388 personal protective equipment (PPE), five ventilators and five multi-paramonitors to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) for Covid-19 management.
GMCH Aurangabad is the only state-run dedicated covid hospital (DCH) in Aurangabad division, which gets patients from Jalna, Parbhani, Hingoli and Aurangabad districts. Moreover, at any given time, 70% of the Covid-19 patients admitted at the hospital are in a critical condition as the Covid care centres and the dedicated Covid health centres attend to only asymptomatic patients or those with mild symptoms.
In such a situation, it is important that the doctors, nurses and paramedical staff are properly protected while treating the patients.
GMCH dean Kanan Yelikar said, ¡°The PPE kits provided by the company have ensured sufficient stock for atleast a week.¡±
Head of Skoda¡¯s Aurangabad plant Uma Rao, medical officer Abhay Kulkarni, Ved Jahagirdar (CSR head), chief of workers¡¯ union Prakash Tayade and others handed over the articles to the GMCH administration on Monday.
