Considering the rising number of cases of the Coronavirus Pandemic in India, the prevention, containment and management of the deadly Covid-19 are being monitored at very high level & various actions have been suitably reviewed by the Centre.
Doctors and healthcare workers are our frontline warriors in this fight against the Coronavirus and to fight this battle effectively Personal Protective Equipments (PPE) have become most essential. In view of the large requirements of PPEs in Railway Hospitals, Indian Railways Workshops and Production Units have been put to the task to manufacture PPEs for medical personnel.
In continuation to this, Western Railway’s Lower Parel Workshop have put its best foot forward by making over 1050 PPE coveralls till now, along with shoe covers for the medical fraternity of WR’s Jagjivan Ram Hospital situated at Mumbai Central, which is treating many Coronavirus patients.
According to a Press release issued by Ravinder Bhakar — Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, these PPEs are required in large quantities by medical personnel working in Western Railway’s 172 bed Jagjivan Ram Hospital (JRH), Mumbai Central, which is the only Railway Hospital handling COVID-19 patients in India to protect them from acquiring infections. Western Railway’s Lower Parel Workshop have tirelessly manufactured more than 1000 PPE coveralls with shoe covers for the medical team working round the clock at Jagjivan Ram Hospital.