![Samsung Smart Healthcare Centre Helps Govt Hospitals Fight COVID Samsung Smart Healthcare Centre Helps Govt Hospitals Fight COVID](https://images.medindia.net/health-images/1200_1000/patients-for-acute-respiratory-distress-syndrome.jpg)
"Samsung Smart Healthcare programme supports the government's efforts to benefit communities with limited access to quality healthcare," Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India, said in a statement.
"With these new centres, we now have our healthcare equipment in 142 government hospitals across India. We salute the Covid warriors who have been working tirelessly over the last year to help people," he added.
The new hospitals where the centres are located are in cities such as Mumbai, New Delhi, Lucknow, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Indore, Keylong, Akola, Jamnagar, Shimla and Palakkad, among others.
This addition takes the number of hospitals in the country covered under this citizenship programme to 142.
In the last year alone, Samsung ramped up the programme to add 56 new Samsung Smart Healthcare centres in hospitals across 19 states, contributing to Covid-19 management.
Advertisement
Feedback from hospitals indicate that these Digital X-ray machines, which are portable, are extensively being used for in-room diagnosis of patients, it added.
Advertisement
Source-IANS