Highlights Of Saluting The Covid Heroes Townhall With Amitabh Bachchan: An Initiative To Thank Covid Warriors For Their Selfless Service During The Pandemic
Saluting The COVID Heroes Townhall with Amitabh Bachchan honours the efforts of ordinary people who made extraordinary contribution to help those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes at great risk to their own lives.
Jul 11, 2021
20:51 (IST)
As the townhall comes to an end, Laxman Narasimhan, CEO, Reckitt talks about the learning from the first and second waves and ways to prepare for the third wave
We have learnt a lot over the last 18 months and think about how we can get ready for it and we have broken it down into three parts. And the model that we are using for ourselves also applies to the communities that we are engaged with. This first one is to really prevent and slow things down- that comes through the behaviours for us, communicate the right behaviour so people learn, the other thing it to ensure that the products are available, but also that we partner with a variety of organisations like school, local comunities to ensure that people understand what the behaviours are that are needed in order to slow things down while we get things right with regard to vaccines and the antivirus that are being developed. The schools are the real place of focus for us in terms of how we navigate that.
The second element of this is, even though we may prepare and slow things down, sometimes it is the unexpected variant that could come and you got to have some way to respond and there we've got to move with speed. Now last time, when all these things happened, we sort of used the sheer energy of people, the entrepreneurship of people, but at this point of time we have learnt a lot and learnt to be much more organised about it and we focus on our supply chain to ensure they are quick, and the investments have been made so we can respond quickly.