Coal India Limited (CIL), the manpower intensive industry, is on high alert to guard its employees, by ramping up the medical infrastructure and availability of oxygen cylinders across its subsidiaries, to combat the second surge of Covid-19.
In what could be the highest mobilization of Covid beds by a corporate entity in the country, the Maharatna coal miner has set up around 2000 beds which include ICU, isolation and covid care beds with oxygen support. While oxygen supported beds are over 750 the ICU beds number nearly 70. This apart, CIL’s coal companies have also tied up with local hospitals and State governments funding and facilitating beds to step up Covid relief measures. Availability of beds in local peripheral areas is also being increased.
