Silicon Valley veteran entrepreneur-investor Vinod Khosla offers to fund Indian hospitals

Vinod Khosla, among the many most distinguished Indian American names in Silicon Valley, stated on microblogging platform Twitter that he needed to fund hospitals for importing oxygen provides amid the continuing Covid disaster within the nation.

“I am keen to fund hospitals in India that want funding to import bulk planeloads of oxygen or provides into India to extend provide. Public hospitals/NGOs additionally pls attain out,” learn the tweet.

The startup and investor ecosystem has come collectively to supply every kind of assets and assist to tide over the second wave of an infection which had ravaged Indian cities.

The dearth of oxygen provide has left contaminated individuals gasping for breath as hospital capacities maxed out forcing them to show down affected person admissions.

Distinguished traders and entrepreneurs have taken to social media platforms to pledge help and donate to assist hospitals and organisations that want funds.

Numerous individuals responded to Khosla’s message that went viral on Twitter, with Sangita Reddy, joint managing director, Apollo Hospitals Group, calling it beneficiant and well timed. “We’re operating two medical faculty hospitals principally free and have free wards in most of our hospitals. Will attain out. Pace is of the essence,” the message from Reddy learn.

In a follow-up tweet, Khosla instructed one of many those that he has already donated for the trigger. And in one other tweet he urged the US administration to think about releasing the Astra Zeneca vaccines to India. “The AZ vaccine is unlikely to be ever accepted within the US given present alternate options right here. @Potus (President of the USA) ought to completely launch all doses and future commitments for US provide since Moderna and @pfizer can provide US wants,” the tweet learn.

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Khosla is an ace Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who based Khosla Ventures in 2004. The IIT- Delhi graduate has additionally had an extended stint at famed enterprise capital fund
Kleiner Perkins as a basic companion.