MUMBAI: To aid India's Covid relief efforts, Hyundai Motor India Foundation (HMIF), the philanthropic arm of Hyundai Motor India, has announced a Rs 20 crore relief package. The amount from Hyundai Motor India will be used for a series of initiatives to offer infrastructural assistance to the most affected states of Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu. 

Through this fresh step in Hyundai's Covid relief programs, the company will deploy resources to set up oxygen generating plants in hospitals, to aid critical patients and help hospitals become self-sufficient in oxygen. 

Apart from this, the HMIF will also aid the installation of medicare facilities and provide support staff to various hospitals and cater to their operational cost for the next three months and further if needed, Hyundai Motor India Limited said in a statement. 

"The second wave of this Covid2019 Pandemic has triggered an unprecedented crisis for the nation. In times of despair we often lose hope amidst the chaos, but it is also times such as these that bring out the best of humanity within us all. To offer meaningful assistance to the most affected cities and states, Hyundai has redeployed its resources and channelled efforts that will provide relief during these difficult circumstances. We are organising resources on a war footing and hope to help in abating this crisis," said HMIL managing director and CEO SS Kim. 

In the statement, HMIL made it clear that the relief package offered by the company is to ''ensure timely assistance is delivered to highly affected cities and states the company is evaluating all options to expedite the deployment of these resources on a war footing.'' 

Hyundai has also announced a vaccination drive among its employees, aged 45 and above at its manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu through the office of the Sriperumbudur government primary health centre.