LIC donates ₹3.19 crore in medical equipment to Rayalaseema hospitals
The LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation has donated medical equipment worth ₹3.19 crore to two hospitals in the Rayalaseema region. The donation includes ventilators and digital radiographic systems to improve healthcare access for low-income patients.
Why it matters
Demonstrates corporate social responsibility initiatives aimed at bolstering public health infrastructure in underserved regions.
LIC of India has donated medical equipment worth ₹3.19 crore to two healthcare institutions in Rayalaseema region.
The funding was done through the LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation to provide six ventilators and three electrosurgical generators (ESU) worth ₹98 lakh to Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Puttaparthi. Similarly, a 1000 mA dual detector digital radiographic system, valued at ₹2.21 crore, was donated to RIMS Government General Hospital in Kadapa.
The equipment at Puttaparthi was inaugurated early in March by the then LIC Zonal Manager (South Central Zone) Puneet Kumar, in the presence of the then Senior Divisional Manager G.K.R.V. Ravikumar and Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust’s managing trustee J. Ratnakar.
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