The Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI) announces its collaboration with the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) for upgrading the existing facility of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) from 20 to 30 beds and to establish a separate Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at its Chhatrapati Shivaji Hospital, Kalwa. The SCI’s collaboration is by way of a firm of commitment to TMC for Rs 53.86 lakh for procurement of the identified equipments in the NICU and PICU. The process of procurement of the equipments would be undertaken by TMC in due course. The TMC has acknowledged the commitment and has willingly accepted the said collaboration.
The project has been identified, evaluated and supported by SCI in response to the proposal received from the Thane Municipal Commissioner’s office in the month of September 2010. The upgraded NICU and PICU will cater to the steadily increasing number of newborns requiring intensive care belonging to weaker sections of the society. This initiative is part of the Corporate Social Responsibility of SCI wherein the company has formulated a policy to earmark 1% of its Net Profit After Taxes of the preceding year to such endeavours.