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Pope sends respirators to Covid-struck Colombia
Pope Francis sends medical and surgical equipment to Colombia, which is struggling to treat Covid-19 patients.
By Vatican News staff writer
Pope Francis has made another donation, consisting in life-saving respirators and other equipment, to hospitals struggling to cope with the covid-19 pandemic.
Through the channels of the Apostolic Nunciature in Bogotà, four respirators and several containers of PPE equipment needed to treat patients infected with the coronavirus have been distributed to hospitals in Colombia.
Medical supplies distributed in poor areas
According to the Colombian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, has sent the Pope s gifts to some of the worst-hit areas of the country, in order to assist those in need who have difficulty in gaining access to medical care.