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Rotary donates ventilator and other equipment for the treatment of COVD-19 affected patients
Kolkata/IBNS: Rotary Club of Calcutta Mega City in partnership with Rotary Clubs of Singapore and Singapore North have jointly contributed to Kolkata hospital Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan a state of the art ventilator unit.
This highly efficient unit will help the hospital to handle COVID-19 patients needing critical care, the donors said in a release.
Besides this, other COVID-19 related protective material such as PPE, sanitisers, gloves, etc. were also donated.
The entire donation is worth about Rs 26 lakhs (USD 34,500).
While handing over the material to Maharaj Swami Nityakamanandaji, Secretary of the hospital, Anirudha Roychowdhury, Past District Governor of Rotary, said, “Rotary is happy that the Ramakrishna Mission has given this opportunity to Rotary to serve the society.”
The 630 bed charitable hospital was set up in 1932 under the Ramakrishna Math.
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