Ola to provide oxygen concentrators for free through app

“By this initiative, we are going to present oxygen concentrators to these recovering or isolating at dwelling, proper at their doorstep. We hope the simpler entry to oxygen will ease the misery of many sufferers,” stated Atul Satija, CEO and Founder 2.0 at GiveIndia.

Ola Basis, the philanthropic arm of ride-hailing firm Ola, on Monday introduced a partnership with GiveIndia to supply oxygen concentrators to customers free of charge by way of the Ola app.

The service might be rolled out in Bengaluru this week with an preliminary set of 500 oxygen concentrators. Ola and GiveIndia will scale it up throughout the nation with as much as 10,000 concentrators within the coming weeks.

Shoppers will be capable of log into the Ola app and request an oxygen concentrator by offering a number of primary particulars. As soon as submitted, the request might be validated and Ola will then decide up the concentrator by way of certainly one of its cabs with a specifically skilled driver and produce it to the patron’s doorstep.

As soon as the affected person has gotten higher and now not requires the concentrator, Ola will decide the gadget again up and return it to GiveIndia to get it prepared for the following affected person who wants it. This complete expertise might be seamless and the oxygen concentrator, in addition to the doorstep supply and pickup, might be fully free for customers.

Bhavish Aggarwal, chairman and Group CEO, Ola, stated: “We should come collectively and assist our communities throughout these unprecedented occasions. With the O2ForIndia initiative in partnership with GiveIndia, we are going to present free and quick access to oxygen concentrators to these in want. We hope this initiative brings much-needed assist throughout these very troublesome occasions and helps in mitigating the ache and the nervousness amongst these impacted.”

“By this initiative, we are going to present oxygen concentrators to these recovering or isolating at dwelling, proper at their doorstep. We hope the simpler entry to oxygen will ease the misery of many sufferers,” stated Atul Satija, CEO and Founder 2.0 at GiveIndia.