Bengaluru: An initiative ‘O2ForIndia’ to provide Oxygen Concentrators free of cost through Ola app for home isolated COVID patients, partnering Ola Foundation and GiveIndia Foundation, was launched here yesterday.
Speaking after launching this initiative, Deputy Chief Minister and State COVID Ministerial Task Force Head, Dr. C.N. Ashwathmarayan said to start with, this initiative was being implemented in Malleshwaram and Koramangala and would be expanded throughout the city and also to all the places where Ola is operating. This will be given only for those whose oxygen saturation is below 94. This is not required for those whose oxygen level Is above 94, he pointed out. The service is rolled out in Bengaluru with an initial set of 500 oxygen concentrators. Ola and GiveIndia will scale it up across the country with up to 10,000 concentrators in the coming weeks, he said.
