NEW DELHI: State-owned CIL’s subsidiaries have set up 1,509 isolation beds in eight states in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said.
The eight coal-bearing states are Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Assam.
Of the 1509 beds, Coal India arm Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) has set up a maximum of 664 beds at its hospitals in places like Bhubaneswar, Angul, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, and Sundargarh in the state of Odisha.
