Anand Mahindra in a spree of tweets on Sunday talked about a precise plan to battle it out against coronavirus. In a series of tweets, he mentioned How India may already be in the 3rd stage of COVID-19 pandemic and the public does not know about it. He says, as per Episdemologist it is highly likely India might be on the first stage of COVID19 pandemic and it can have a huge cost on the present medical infrastructure.
Going by various reports from epidemiologists, it is highly likely that India is already in Stage 3 of transmission.
—Cases could rise exponentially with millions of casualties, putting a huge strain on medical infrastructure (1/5)— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
He stated in his next tweet, among his spree of tweets, How we can battle it out against corona by having more ventilators and hospitals, health care units. He stated a lot of temporary health care infrastructure will be required.
—A lockdown over the next few weeks will help flatten the curve & moderate the peak pressure on medical care. —However, we need to create scores of temporary hospitals & we have a scarcity of ventilators. (2/5)
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
On his next series of tweets, he stated How the Mahindra group is ready to provide assistance in terms of providing three important components that can be hard hit amidst coronavirus outbreak. Mahindra promises to provide temporary health care units through the resorts that he owns. Mahindra in his sequence of tweets also talks about How he will be opening portals for people to donate through him and requests other businesses to assist their units, especially that have had losses.
—To help in the response to this unprecedented threat, we at the Mahindra Group will immediately begin work on how our manufacturing facilities can make ventilators.
—At Mahindra Holidays, we stand ready to offer our resorts as temporary care facilities. (3/5)— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
—Our Projects team stands ready to assist the Govt/Army in erecting temporary care facilities. —The Mahindra Foundation will create a fund to assist the hardest hit in our value chain (small businesses & the self employed) (4/5)
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
—We will encourage associates to voluntarily contribute to the Fund. I will contribute 100% of my salary to it & will add more over the next few months. I urge all our various businesses to also set aside contributions for those who are the hardest hit in their ecosystems (5/5)
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
Anand Mahindra also states that He through his Mahindra Fund will assist monetarily small scale entrepreneurs and businesses to cope with the calamity.