Major International Food Company Join Hands with IHC in Singapore to Supply COVID-19 Essentials to India

A major international food and agri-business firm in Singapore associates with the Indian High Commission and other public and private sector majors to offer crucial medical supplies to help India's battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Olam International, headquartered in Singapore, it is collaborating with Temasek, Temasek Foundation, Singapore Airlines, Kerry Logistics, SATS (Singapore Airport Terminal Services Ltd), Air India, the Pan IIM Alumni Association and the High Commission of India in Singapore to gather and airlift essential medical equipment to address the critical oxygen requirements in India.

For Past four days the partners have sent 200 oxygen concentrators, 51,000 oximeters, 825 hospital-grade BiPAP machines and 30 tele-ventilators from Singapore to India, and is determined to continue to work towards providing more essential medical supplies to the country, Olam said.

Olam continues to work with a coalition of private and public sector associates including the Pune Platform for COVID-19 Response anchored at MCCAI, Singapore High Commission in India, ACT Grants, Swasth Alliance, Manipal Foundation, HCG, Medanta, local health authorities, various India business groups and many others.

“We have seen the severe impact this pandemic has had on people and communities across the world, and it is a heartbreaking situation as it now sweeps through India," says A Shekhar, Executive Director at the Olam Group and CEO of Olam Food Ingredients.

"We will continue to support relief efforts while ensuring we keep our staff, partners and operations on the ground safe. As it has been said, no one is safe until everyone is safe,” he said. Separately, Olam has also launched a company-wide donation drive to raise funds for COVID-19 relief efforts in India. These funds collected through contributions from employees will be directed fully towards COVID-19 relief programmes at the local, state or federal level in India. Meanwhile, permanent residents in Singapore Prantik Mazumdar and Dipti Kamath have raised SGD 204,960 ($1,53,828) as of Thursday through crowd funding platform Milaap.

"We are inspired because 1,043 people from 10 nations have supported our project," tabla!, a Singapore weekly on the Indian community, quoted Mazumdar as saying.The husband and wife duo are working with Swasth Hindustan Mission in Bengaluru and Mission Oxygen in Mumbai to distribute the concentrators.Also, a group of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University alumni, have also taken to Milaap to raise funds and help India overcome the oxygen shortage.

"About 600 people from all over the world have contributed and we have raised about USD100,000. We are now buying oxygen concentrators," Rahul Singh, a bank employee and NTU 2010 graduate.

These concentrators will be given to Community Empowerment Lab and Mercy Mission for distribution at the ground level in Uttar Pradesh and Bengaluru.

Indian expats Rohit Dwivedi, Gaurav Mishra and Seema Devgan have raised SGD 100,000 ($ 75,058) from the people in Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Australia and Hong Kong. The trio is working with NGO Delhi Youth Welfare Association to distribute essential medical equipment in India.

Linus Ng, executive director of CHARIS says, "We are now focused on working with our partner organisations to judiciously and effectively deploy the funds."

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