Reaching out to those in need during the Covid-19 crisis, the Navy through its Naval Air Station (NAS) Utkrosh and Material Organisation (Port Blair) carried out food distribution in Port Blair.
The naval station organised food distribution camp for 155 labourers working for the infrastructural development of the Air Station. The labourers are presently staying in the vicinity of the Air Station.
A team visited the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and distributed cooked meals and dry provisions for the children and staff. Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram is a non-profit organisation providing food and shelter to adivasi children. The organisation has a unit operating at Port Blair housing around 38 children. The organisation also provides lodging facility to poor adivasi families visiting Port Blair for medical treatment. The team also sensitised the children and staff about the COVID-19 and the precautions to be exercised during lockdown to avoid spread of the pandemic, according to navy officials here on Sunday
This apart, the in-house designed and manufactured ‘Portable Mutlifeed Oxygen Manifold’ by Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam was handed over to the Visakhapatnam Collector. The entire set up uses an industrial 6-way radial header to enable one jumbo size Oxygen Bottle to supply Oxygen to six patients concurrently. While five sets were handed over to the Collector, balance 20 sets are planned to be progressively supplied over within the next two weeks.