JK News Today
Jammu, February 16:
R.V.S.Kushwaha, General Manager(Asett Management) POWERGRID Northern Region-II handed over ambulances to District Hospitals, Kathua and Samba today in an imprerssive function held at 400/220 kV Substation of POWERGRID at Samba.
Dr. S D Atri, Medical Superintendent, Kathua and Dr. Harbaksh Singh, Medical Superintendent, Distt. Hospital Samba received the ambulances on behalf of District Hospital Kathua and District Hospital Samba respectively in presence of senior doctors of both hospitals and senior officers of POWERGRID including Sanjay Gupta DGM(F&A), S.J.Sharma , DGM(C&M), Lalit Mahajan , Chief Manager(Samba), Dr. J.S.Chouhan, Chief Manager (I/C-HR) and Raman, Chief Manager (HR).
Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(POWERGRID), realizing the indispensable role of ambulance services in emergency pre-hospital medical care, patient transfer, ease of access to health services particularly to rural / difficult areas has undertaken initiative of providing ambulances to Government hospitals / Medical colleges / Rural Health Centers as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. POWERGRID has been donating such ambulances to various Government .Hospitals across the country under its CSR initiative with the objective that it will strengthen the Public health infrastructure, increase confidence of people in public healthcare services and enhanced utilization of public health infrastructure.
On this occasion R.V.S.Kushwaha intimated that POWERGRID during the current financial year has already donated the Ambulances to the District hospital, Udhampur District hospital, Bandipora, District hospital, Kargil, District hospital, Leh in the state of J&K.
Authorities of District Hospital Kathua and Samba expressed their gratitude to POWERGRID for its noble gesture and requested POWERGRID to continue to support the them in future.as well.
It would be pertinent to mention that POWERGRID has been contributing significantly to the social sector of the country in addition to its core obligations .POWERGIRD has been carrying out extensive community development works such as natural resource management, rural infrastructure development, education, skill based and agro based livelihood developments across the country under its corporate responsibility schemes.. Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd has been involved in many CSR activities in the country as a whole and this Region in particular.
