GAIL (India) Limited has sponsored an air pollution related disease diagnostic centre (APRDC) at the general hospital, Kochi, at a cost of Rs 20 lakh. | |
| The centre is equipped with the latest device for biochemical lung testing through breath condensate (ecoscreen) and for analysis of hydrogen peroxide. |
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| According to a press release, GAIL has extended support to two community development programmes in Alwaye and Kochi under its corporate social responsibility initiatives. |
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| U D Choubey, director (marketing), handed over computers, kitchenware and electrical items worth Rs 3 lakh to the Janseva Sishu Bhavan (orphanage), Alwaye. |
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| The organisation works for rehabilitation of orphan children. Similar items were also given to the Don Bosco Sneha Bhavan for the 'Young at Risk' project at Mattancherry, Kochi. |
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| GAIL has also extended support to the sustainable livelihood for physically challenged women through screw pine craft, executed at Kottapuram in the state through the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. |
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| The project aims at training physically challenged women of Kodungallur taluk in Thrissur district in screw pine craft for self sustainable livelihood. The project is being implemented by the Kottapuram Integrated Development Society (KIDS). |
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