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GE Foundation Grants Help Communities In India Combat COVID-19

“We believe that this grant will bring timely medical care to critically affected COVID-19 patients in India,” Mahesh Palashikar, President and CEO, GE South Asia.

The GE Foundation announced $600,000 in COVID-19 Community Response Grants, which will provide critical funds to enable treatment of patients with COVID-19. A $450,000 grant to United Way Bengaluru will support the build-out of 60 intensive treatment units (ITUs) at St John’s Hospital in Bengaluru, which will provide intensive level nursing and oxygen for up to 600 patients each month and free up intensive care beds for critically ill COVID-19 patients. A $150,000 grant to Americares will fund 100 oxygen concentrators to hospitals in need across Vadodara, Noida, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. The oxygen concentrators and associated supplies will support approximately 2,500 patients over the next six months. 

“The GE Foundation is proud to work with trusted partners in disaster response to help families in India facing unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Linda Boff, President, GE Foundation and Vice President, GE.

“We believe that this grant will bring timely medical care to critically affected COVID-19 patients in India,” Mahesh Palashikar, President and CEO, GE South Asia.

“At this time of adversity in India where we are bearing the brunt of the brutal Covid second wave, it is important to have a balance between addressing immediate needs and medium to long term needs. I appreciate the response from GE Foundation wherein they have addressed both the needs.  The 60 bed ITU at St John’s is a big step in that direction,” said Rajesh Krishnan, Executive Director, United Way Bengaluru.

“The GE Foundation is among Americares’ most reliable and committed supporters, and thanks to their generous donation, our emergency response team in India will be better positioned to provide health facilities and COVID-19 treatment centers with the supplies they need to protect health workers and care for patients,” said Christine Squires, President and CEO, Americares. 

Today’s announcement builds on a $275,000 COVID-19 Community Response Grant made in late 2020 to the United Way India, which supported the organization’s “Hungry No More” initiative. The program set up kiosks to distribute more than 18,000 food kits to migrant workers and families in five cities - Vadodara, Pune, Noida, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The 7-10-day dry ration food kits helped an estimated 90,000 people, reducing hunger and stress in these areas.

Throughout the pandemic, GE has supported communities across India. Recent community initiatives include working with state governments to implement smart kiosks in Noida, Gurugram, Lucknow, Agra, Varanasi, Panaji, and Bengaluru for random population-based screening of COVID-19. These walk-in sample collection kiosks helped eliminate contact between healthcare workers and suspected patients. In addition, GE Volunteers worked with United Way India to distribute ration kits in Karnataka, Telangana and Gujarat.


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