{"id":19925,"date":"2021-05-22T13:08:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=19925"},"modified":"2021-05-22T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:08:47","slug":"spic-steps-up-its-efforts-in-the-fight-against-covid-19-commits-additional-funds-and-resources-for-the-affected-in-tuticorin-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=19925","title":{"rendered":"SPIC steps up its efforts in the fight against COVID-19; commits additional funds and resources for the affected in Tuticorin district"},"content":{"rendered":"

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( L – R ) Mr.S.R. Ramakrishnan, Whole-time Director and Mr.K. Gopalakrishnan, Vice President-Corporate Affairs of SPIC handed over the cheques to Smt Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Honourable Member of Parliament for Tuticorin constituency; Also seen in the picture are Smt P Geetha Jeevan, Minister for Social Welfare & Women Empowerment and Dr K. Senthil Raj, I.A.S., Collector, Thoothukudi.<\/p>\n

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( L – R ) Mr.S.R. Ramakrishnan, Whole-time Director and Mr.K. Gopalakrishnan, Vice President-Corporate Affairs of SPIC handed over the Oxygen Flow Meters to Smt Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Honourable Member of Parliament for Tuticorin constituency; Also seen in the picture are Smt P Geetha Jeevan, Minister for Social Welfare & Women Empowerment and Dr K. Senthil Raj, I.A.S., Collector, Thoothukudi.<\/p>\n

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SPIC steps up its efforts in the fight against COVID-19; commits additional funds and resources for the affected in Tuticorin district<\/p>\n

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For the treatment of COVID-19 patients who need oxygen support, the plant will start producing medical grade oxygen and supply 170 cylinders on a daily basis free of cost to hospitals in and around Tuticorin district. The capital cost to set up the plant is Rs. 1.50 crores.<\/p>\n

Donates 400 imported Oxygen Flow Meters for use in hospitals for treating COVID19 patients in Tuticorin district.<\/p>\n

Contributes Rs. 1 crore to Chief Ministers Public Relief Fund; group companies, Tamil Nadu Petro and Manali Petro has contributed Rs. 50 lacs each for this initiative.<\/p>\n

Contributes Rs. 1 crore to District Collectors CSR Fund, Tuticorin<\/p>\n

Mr. Ashwin Muthiah, Chairman – SPIC and Founding Chairman, AM International, said, \u201cThe second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is more severe and needs to be fought jointly by all stakeholders. As a responsible corporate, we are committed to supporting the government and local authorities during the current times. The contributions will help in bettering the district\u2019s healthcare infrastructure and save precious lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

On behalf of the company, Mr.S.R. Ramakrishnan, Whole-time Director and Mr.K. Gopalakrishnan, Vice President-Corporate Affairs handed over the cheques to Honourable Member of Parliament for Tuticorin constituency.<\/p>\n

AM Foundation, the CSR arm of SPIC and other AM International group companies since the past year, has been working closely with local authorities for various COVID-19 related relief measures. It has donated items like masks and sanitizers to healthcare, police, and frontline workers and food items for the needy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

( L – R ) Mr.S.R. Ramakrishnan, Whole-time Director and Mr.K. Gopalakrishnan, Vice President-Corporate Affairs of SPIC handed over the cheques to Smt Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Honourable Member of Parliament for Tuticorin constituency; Also seen in the picture are Smt P Geetha Jeevan, Minister for Social Welfare & Women Empowerment and Dr K. Senthil Raj, I.A.S., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19928,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19925\/revisions\/19928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}