Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Warehousing Corporation (OSWC) provided one 10 seated e-vehicle at a cost of Rs.11.90 lakh to the Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswar out of its CSR fund in an event held in the Hospital Campus on today.
Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Minister, FS & CW, Cooperation and Higher Education handed over the vehicle to the Director, Capital Hospital on the occasion.
The Capital Hospital is a premier hospital in the State recently declared as Post Graduate Institute which spread across 25 acres of land with 750 beds and about 5500 patients come for treatment daily.
The electric vehicle will help a lot to the Patients, PWDs, Children and Senior Citizens for movement to different departments inside the campus to avail treatment within a short time painlessly.
The OSWC is providing warehousing & logistic support to the agriculture sector by way of operating 68 warehouses spread over 30 districts of the State.
The Corporation mainly deals with scientific storage of food grains for distribution under PDS and other welfare schemes of the Govt. It is a profit making PSU under Cooperation Department and contributes towards CSR activities out of its net profit.
On the occasion Manjushree Badhai, Chairperson, Ganeswar Jena, Managing Director, Ranjita Sahoo, Secretary, Smitanjali Swain, FA & CAO, Supriya Swain, CGM, N.K. Mishra, General Manager of OSWC were present.
Laxmidhar Sahoo, Director, Capital Hospital, Dillip Kumar Panda, Superintendent, Dhananjaya Das, Deputy Superintendent and Officers of Capital Hospital were present in the event.
The endeavor of the OSWC for serving the society at large and protecting the environment was appreciated.