Amitabh Bachchan donates ventilators to hospital in Mumbai

To lend a helping hand amid the second COVID wave, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan recently donated two state-of-the-art Intensive Ventilators of 'Class-1' type to the Lokmanya Tilak General Hospital of the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation.

New Delhi: To lend a helping hand amid the second COVID wave, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan recently donated two state-of-the-art Intensive Ventilators of 'Class-1' type to the Lokmanya Tilak General Hospital of the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation. According to the hospital, which is located in the Siva area of Mumbai, about 30 needy patients have been effectively treated with these two state-of-the-art ventilators in the last few days. Both the ventilators have been operationalized in the surgical department of the hospital. In addition to that Bachchan also donated medical supplies worth approximately Rs. 1.75 crore, which included monitors, CRM image intensifiers, infusion pumps, among other things. The doctors and medical staff of the hospital thanked the 78-year-old actor for his generous donation.