City-based firm proposes Global Safety Centre

Vadodara: In a bid to tackle pandemics effectively, a city-based firm has proposed a Global Safety Centre (GSC) to the state as well as central government.
Sure Safety India Ltd (SSIL) has proposed to jointly set up the centre that will be equipped with facilities to deal with any pandemic swiftly and save lives.
“After the coronavirus outbreak, we sent a proposal to the state government and Centre for setting up GSC in the city. The centre will have state-of-the-art research and development facilities, testing laboratories and capacity to produce one million face masks per month and have inventory for three months,” said Nishith Dand, managing director, SSIL.
Dand said the idea came up after coronavirus outbreak and how the world was unequipped to take on this pandemic.
“We are ready to jointly fund the centre with the government,” Dand told TOI. SSIL is already making personal protective equipment (PPE) that is being supplied to the state government, Centre and defence forces.
“We are currently making 1.75 million PPEs per month and by next month our capacity will reach two million,” Dand added.
The company has been in the business of making protective gear and equipment since many years.