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IHCL extends its meal and quarantine initiatives to other cities

TPSWT has delivered over 49,500 meals to date in Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

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IHCL extends its meal and quarantine initiatives to other cities

IHCL has announced that it is expanding its meal and quarantine initiatives to other cities in response to the ongoing second wave of COVID-19 in the country, which has proved to be much more fierce.

“We at IHCL are keenly aware of our responsibility towards our immediate community and the people within it. In 2008, we created the Taj Public Service Welfare Trust (TPSWT) to provide relief and support to victims of natural or man-made disasters. The second wave of the pandemic has been much more fierce. We are expanding our outreach in response to this.”

Further to their COVID-relief efforts started last year, TPSWT has delivered over 49,500 meals to date in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. This has been done through IHCL’s market leader airline catering brand TajSats which has partnered with individuals and brands like  Chef Sanjeev Kapoor,  World Central Kitchen (https://wck.org), a non-profit organization based out of Washington D.C., Deutsche Bank and others who are coming on board.  

IHCL is distributing nutritious meals to medical staff in key hospitals/COVID-19 centres in Mumbai. The hospitals are Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Cooper,Sir JJ,ESIC,Gokuldas Tejpal,Tata Memorial and Kasturba. The Covid Care Centres are in Ward A and C. Over 38,500 meals have been delivered till date in Mumbai.

Ginger hotels are also working with these partners to deliver meals to the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. Over 10,500 meals have been delivered in Ahmedabad till date. This initiative will be also rolled out in New Delhi soon.

Apart from distributing nutritious meals, the hospitality chain is also continuing its effort to provide quarantine facilities to asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients.

Select IHCL hotels across India have been converted into quarantine facilities with hospital partners. The quarantine rooms are for mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic patients at the discretion of the hospital. The hospital partner will  provide a doctor and nurse to monitor the vital parameters.  11 hotels across 8 cities are offering 950 rooms.

The hotels providing these facilities include President, a SeleQtions hotel, Mumbai; Vivanta Dwarka, New Delhi; Taj Club House, Chennai; Taj Yeshwantpur, Bangalore; Taj Banjara, Hyderabad;  Ginger Bangalore Inner Ring Road; Ginger Vadapalani, Chennai; Ginger Guwahati; Ginger Indore and Ginger Mahakali, Mumbai and Ginger Jaipur.