Celkon forays into healthcare products

HYDERABAD: Mobile handset maker Celkon announced that it will enter the healthcare products sector with a range of products under ‘Celkon Health’ brand to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

The company plans to launch products including personal protection equipment, contact-less sanitiser dispensers, spray sanitisers, wireless chargers, ultraviolet sterilisers, infrared thermometers and face shield masks in the next one month. Celkon chairman Y Guru said the company was weighing options to diversify its product range for a while and had found that “quality healthcare products are a need of the hour and there is no better time to enter the field”.

The entire range of products are being manufactured at Celkon’s Hyderabad facility as part of the ‘Make in India’ programme, said Guru.