Lucknow: India’s indigenous e-commerce company Flipkart along with ‘GiveIndia Foundation’ on Wednesday donated 50,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits to the Uttar Pradesh government.
The PPE kits were provided to the state officials in a virtual ceremony attended by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Flipkart’s Chief Corporate Officer (CCO) Rajneesh Kumar.
Lauding the efforts of Yogi Adityanath in combating Covid-19 in the state, Rajneesh Kumar said,”Flipkart is committed to the development and security of Uttar Pradesh and its residents. We are proud that we are helping the state government in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. 50,000 PPE kits have been provided to the U.P government in collaboration with GiveIndia Foundation which will help in protecting the health workers, patients and other frontline warriors from coronavirus infection.”
Earlier, Flipkart had donated more than 50,000 PPE protective gear and N95 masks to the Uttar Pradesh administration to fight the pandemic.
Flipkart has distributed more than one million medical gowns and six lakh N-95 masks across India.
