The Conservative politician Andrew Mitchell was ahead of his time 12 years ago when he travelled the world extolling the benefits of development aid.
With a grey shock of schoolboy hair and a military officer’s manner, Mr Mitchell was equally happy commandeering private planes and piling into regular economy, as he travelled from Rwanda to Eritrea to Pakistan with a missionary zeal. When the Labour government lost power in 2010, Mr Mitchell was made international development secretary and drove home his message that prosperity should not be built on the back of the world’s poorest. He ensured that the UK was not only the first G7 country to meet the 0.7 per cent of GDP target for international aid spending – set by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – but also made sure that the figure was put in law.
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The first batch arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday, with the rest due to arrive by Friday.
The equipment will then be transferred to Indian hospitals.
The support was sent in response to a request from India and a pledge from Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the UK to do all it could to help.
The assistance package has been sourced by the Department of Health and Social Care and funded by the Foreign Office.
“We stand with our Indian friends in their fight against Covid-19, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said. International collaboration is more essential than ever and this additional UK support package will help meet India’s current needs, particularly for more oxygen.”
120 oxygen concentrators from UK reach India amid COVID-19 surge
NEW DELHI: A consignment of 120 oxygen concentrators from the United Kingdom reached India, which is in the throes of a deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, on Thursday morning.
Taking to Twitter, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi announced: “Cooperation with UK continues. Welcome another shipment from UK containing 120 oxygen concentrators that arrived early this morning.”
The UK had earlier announced that it would send three oxygen generation units, each with the capacity of producing 500 litres of oxygen per minute, to India in support of the country’s fight against COVID-19.
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