In this ongoing Covid crisis in the country, there is a shortage of critical healthcare needs across the country, ranging from oxygen access, medical infrastructure, trained medical personnel, healthcare equipment, Covid care units and critical care set-ups.

In our efforts to contain this pandemic, world is rallying behind India extending their support in this hour of national crisis. Everyone is striving to play their part in the society as a socially responsible citizen by extending their support to enhance healthcare infrastructure across the country.

Our hospitalsareworking day & night to save every possible life from Covid -19 with limited available resources during this crisis. You can help them save more lives at this critical juncture by supporting them. A good deed done is returned in many ways and in multiples to you.

The dire needs of the hospitals currently are oxygen access to patients and upgrading of the ICU set-ups. People in rural areas are equally affected and the hospital facilities scarce and inadequate.

We extend this appeal to support Kamada Kinker Memorial Hospital (KKMH) in West Bengal that was initiated by Late Hon. President Shri-Pranab Mukerjie in memory of his father Shri. KamadaKinkerMukerjie.

KKMH is a secondary care hospital providing health services to a large number of people with no other hospital in 50 km radius. It has 100 non-oxygen beds and 2 ICU beds with doctors and nurses.

What we need?

• We need to set-up a dedicated, 50 bedded Covid care centre with oxygen supply.
• We need to upgrade the ICU facilities to 20 beds with ventilators to care for critically ill Covid patients.
• We need PPE kits & gloves for our staff
• We need testing kits for our fever clinic.
• We wish to set-up to setup a self-sufficient oxygen generation plant sat the hospital,which will improve the predict ability ofoxygen generation.

How can you help?

• Secure oxygen concentrators to help Covid patients who need oxygen supply.
• Save more severely ill people in with additional capacity ICU beds with ventilators and monitors
• Set-up an oxygenplantforthe hospital

Each hospital may have different needs. As donors, we will be able to talk to hospitals directly to identify the needs and channel helpaccordingly. Most of our hospital partners are open to either taking cash donations or procuring equipment through donors. Keeping hospitals accountable for your donations

In return for adopting a hospital, the local group should return this act with information on progress - good and bad. Patients admitted,patients on oxygen, ventilators, intensive care, those who passed away and critically - numbers released from intensive care, numbers of people in recovery and then discharged to go home.These are the direct result of an act to Adopt-a-Hospital.We will request the hospitals receiving donations to consider the patients referred by the donors as priority on a best effort basis.

Every action support of this effort directly benefits people we know.
1. Each ventilator supports 30 sick patients each month - ten ventilators support 300 per month in that hospital. The cost of ventilatoris10to15LakhsINR.ThecostofmonitorisaboutINR70,000.
2. 70 cylindersperday arerequiredtorun15bedICUand30 regularbeds.
3. One oxygen plant can generate Oxygen worth of 30 / 70 / 100 cylinders per day. An Oxygen plant may cost INR 30 to 40 Lakhs for a30-cylinderplant.
4. Each ambulance can transport 10 to 12 additional patients for life saving treatment per day plus 8 to 10 recovered patients home to free up hospital capacity.Each small ambulance may cost a minimum of INR 4Lakhs.
Note:All prices are approximate and may vary depending on the model, make and vendor.