Karnataka Bank donates ambulance to DK district administration

KEY STORY

• MANGALURU: As a part of its corporate social responsibility, Karnataka Bank has donated an ambulance costing around Rs 20 lakh to the Dakshina Kannada district administration.

• The ambulance was handed over by Mahabaleshwara MS, MD & CEO of the bank to Dr Rajendra KV, DK deputy commissioner at the bank’s head office.

The DC said, “This is a huge support and morale booster for the district administration to fight the Covid-19 pandemic as well as to provide the emergency health services to the needy ones. The initiative is yet another testimony to the bank’s commitment to the welfare of society.”

• Mahabaleshwara MS said that the ambulance is fully loaded with all necessary life-supporting emergency medical accessories such as autoloading system, separate medical cabinet, jumbo oxygen cylinders, driver cabinet secured from the patient and so on.

• The bank had extended a financial aid of Rs 15,39,700 to the district administration when the pandemic was at its peak and had immediately stepped in to procure digital oxymeters, face masks and 1,000 PPE kits for the medical practitioners and healthcare workers.

CONCLUSION

• The bank has also extended financial assistance by donating a sum of Rs 5 lakh to the Mandya district administration and also sponsored 3,000 units of PPE kits to the district administrations of Udupi, Kodagu and Chikkamagaluru at a total cost of Rs 10,50,000.

  “We believe our contribution in this regard will set the right example to inspire all the stakeholders to contribute towards strengthening the medical infrastructure of public health institutions so as to equip the society to face such contingencies in a better way, ” he added.