MEIL establishes over 3,000 beds for Covid affected in Tamil Nadu
These beds are established in hospitals that have oxygen facilities and will be served by the medical staff of the State government
Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL), as a part of its nationwide initiative to help the State governments in their fight against the pandemic by supplying beds and vital medical equipment, is establishing over 3,000 beds in Tamil Nadu.
These beds are established in hospitals that have oxygen facilities and will be served by the medical staff of the State government.
MEIL has set up 500 beds in Madurai in just 72 hours. While Chief Minister MK Stalin is directly supervising the programme, entire State machinery, Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (Credai) and G Square Realtors are taking part in this initiative.
In addition to 1,070 beds, the MEIL is setting up in hospitals under the Chennai jurisdiction, 200 beds in Erode, 250 in Vellore, 100 in Ambur, 100 in Natramballi, 100 in Melvisharam, 200 in Ayappakkam , 50 in Sholingar, 100 in Vaniyambadi and 100 beds in Walajah are getting ready. The MEIL, which has established 660 beds, will be readying another 3,000 beds in the days to come.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin inaugurated 500 scalable oxygenated bed facilities at the Government Hospital, Thoppur, in Madurai on 21, May 2021. In all 200 of these beds are currently available. The remaining 300 beds will be available to public utility very soon. With the MEIL’s initiative, these beds are provided to the patients free of cost.
MEIL and G Realtors have established a 100-bedded facility in Annanagar Government Hospital and another 100-bedded facility at Omandurar Govt Hospital.
“Since the day the pandemic has spread like wildfire and there was an acute shortage of oxygen, MEIL has stepped in and is augmenting oxygen supply to hospitals. The top management and the entire Megha team are concentrating only on this aspect of mitigating the oxygen crunch. We at MEIL feel that it is our topmost priority in serving the nation,” MEIL director B Srinivasa Reddy noted.
He added that a team under the supervision of the MEIL’s MD Krishna Reddy is working round the clock to achieve this goal.
MEIL will soon establish 200 PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) plants and also embark on manufacturing of cryogenic tanks. He said that DRDO and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural gas are cooperating with MEIL in this aspect.
Srinivasa Reddy said that MEIL has been supplying medical oxygen to hospitals in both the Telugu States free of cost and has imported and donated 11 Cryogenic tanks to the Telangana government.
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