After the donation from Eneva, BNDES and its program entitled “Matchfunding Saving Lives”, the delivery of the new oxygen plant to the hospital in Roraima will take place soon

The program Matchfunding Saving Lives of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) will deliver, in the coming days, an oxygen plant with a production capacity of 30 cubic meters per hour and cylinders for storage with a capacity of 10 cubic meters to the General Hospital of Roraima, the largest public hospital in the capital Boa Vista. With delivery scheduled for February 25, the plant will be able to serve up to 30 ICU beds for Covid-19.

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Eneva in partnership with BNDES

Eneva, an integrated energy generation company, donated BRL 800 to the program Matchfunding Saving Lives, which includes an additional R$1 donated by the bank for every real received.

“The BNDES and Eneva are a fine example of how, together, we can save many lives,” said the head of the BNDES' Impact Relationship Department with the Corporate Sector, Marcus Cardoso Santiago.

'We are still in the serious phase', says secretary

According to the Secretary of Health, Marcelo Lopes, the plant has a daily production capacity of one thousand cubic meters – half of what the state currently needs. It produces O2 from electricity and, therefore, the secretary states that there should be no cost savings.

“The initiative was from Eneva and we [government] knowing that they had ISO containers [metal box] , we asked to use it to fetch oxygen outside of here, because they served the state of Amazonas, and were ready to donate a plant”, said Marcelo Lopes.