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Pfizer supports deployment of oxygen and ICU beds in Delhi, Mumbai covid centres
Pfizer on Monday announced that it has partnered with the NGO Doctors For You to help create oxygen bed capacity at Delhi’s Yamuna Covid Care Centre.With a grant of ₹4.5 crore (about $600,000) from Pfizer, Doctors For You has procured and deployed 400 beds with oxygen support and other medically-necessary equipment, including high quality ventilators, oxygen cylinders, oxygen concentrators, laboratory equipment, consumables and services of medical and paramedical staff services to maintain the operations at the facility.With several experts claiming that the third wave would hit children, around 10% of beds have been set up to specifically meet the requirements of covid-19 pediatric patients.The Yamuna covid care facility primarily caters