Prestige
Group leads
from the
forefront with
its COVID-19
relief measures
Highlights:
·
Prestige
Foundation contributes
over INR
2 crores
towards covid
relief measures
·
Equipped an additional wing of Vimalalaya Hospital and contributed to setting up a 24 bed ICU facility at the HBS hospital
·
Prestige Foundation
has also facilitated donation of 25 oxygen concentrators to private
hospital by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
·
Successfully
vaccinated over
1000 employees
and frontline
workers
·
Provided meals and ration to 20,000 + daily wage workers, underprivileged children in
Bengaluru
·
Deployed 24x7 ambulance service, Covert Frontline team for round the clock assistance and
50 Oxygen Concentrators
·
Extended relief measures to Prestige Property residents and aids Kodagu Institute of
Medical Sciences
As India continues to face the ongoing impact of the pandemic, more
and more corporates are pledging their support through their contributions towards the nation’s
battle with it. Prestige Foundation, the CSR Division of Prestige Group, that ensures to undertake
every opportunity towards the upliftment of the society, came forward with their re-engineered
efforts towards Covid relief measures. Since April 2021 till date, the foundation has donated over
two crore funds
to benefit
those in immediate
need.
The Foundation has further equipped an additional wing of Vimalalaya Hospital in Electronic City,
an establishment
run by
the congregation
of FIH
sisters (Franciscan
Sisters of
Immaculate Heart
of Mary) and offers affordable healthcare, with 24 general ward beds, medical equipment such as
ventilators, oxygen tanks, bed monitors, a 450-litre liquid oxygen cylinder, bypass machines and
injection
pumps.
Furthermore,
contributed to setting up a 24 bed ICU facility at the HBS
hospital through Rotary Bangalore Midtown and ventilators and oxygen
concentrators for Kodagu Institute of
Medical Science’s patients.
In addition,
Prestige Foundation
is not
only advocating/promoting
the urgent
need to
get vaccinated, but also aiding and facilitating its property residents across Bangalore, Chennai and
Hyderabad by hosting vaccination drives and inoculating its members. So far, the Group has
successfully vaccinated over 1000 employees and frontline workers with the help of the BBMP,
Lions Club
and Private
Hospitals. They
will continue
to vaccinate
as and
when supplies
are restocked and made available. The vaccinations drive extends to cover daily wage construction
workers across all the
sites as
well.
Since the onset of the lockdown in April this year, the Foundation has distributed over 20,000
ration kits( each kit providing a monthly sustenance for a family of 4) in the inner most areas of
Bangalore such
as Bytranapura,
Hebbal, Kempapura,
Nagawara, Pulakeshinagar,
Govindpura, Shampur, Shivajinagar, Ulsoor, Bharathinagar, Siddapura, Lakksandra, Byrasandra, Gurupanpalya,
Jayanagar, Chamarajpet,
City Market, Whitefield, Varthur
& Hoskote.
In preparation for any medical requirement, Prestige Foundation created two make-shift isolation
centres for its employees of Property Management Services, an extension of Prestige Properties
with 20
and 30
beds who
earlier lived
in shared
accommodation. In
order to
avoid commuting, comprehensive
boarding
& lodging arrangements
were made
for safer
recovery of
critical staff at
construction sites
itself.
The Covert Support Team ensures relentless and free of cost assistance such as procuring oxygen
supply and concentrators, on call ambulance & on call doctor on driver duty. The Foundation has
procured over 50 oxygen concentrators that can be used by employees and their families, and for
residents across their properties. Prestige Foundation has also facilitated donation of 25 oxygen
concentrators to private hospital by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a
member of the International Humanitarian
City, Dubai.
The employees are additionally provided end-to-end assistance with courier services including
essential services
delivery at
their doorsteps.
In the
unfortunate occurrence
an employee's
demise arrested
by the
pandemic, the
group has
instated a
policy which
supports the
education of
the late
employee’s children.
Commenting on the situation, Mr. Irfan Razack, CMD, Prestige Group said, “We are immensely
grateful and deeply appreciate the unrelenting & compassionate efforts by the frontline workers,
medical staff
in the
current challenging
scenario. In
an attempt
to equip
and ensure
the welfare
of the community amidst the prolonged pandemic, we have undertaken adequate measures which
fulfils our responsibility towards our extended family. It is the opportune time to leverage one’s
resources optimally and provide
support to
all those
in need
for a healthy
future.”
