MP asks companies to pitch in for controlling COVID-19

Contribute funds for setting up medical facilities: Kateel

With the second wave of COVID-19 surging, Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, on Wednesday appealed to the private and the public sector companies to assist the government in creating, arranging medical facilities to tackle the disease in the district. Speaking at a meeting on COVID-19 control, Mr. Kateel asked the companies to contribute funds for setting up medical oxygen plants, purchase of oxygen cylinders, and creating, facilitating other medical facilities in the district. Mr. Kateel said that the infection is spreading fast and there is a crisis. Saving the infected persons has emerged as a challenge both to doctors and the government. In such a situation the companies should join hands with the government to overcome the crisis.