ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 28, 2021 20:59 IST
Covid patients at the LNJP hospital in Delhi
Delhi
The crematorium at Kalkaji, on April 16, had a line of plastic-covered people waiting outside. Only their eyes, burning with grief, were visible. They were members of 12 families who had lost their loved ones to Covid. “It took us two days of calling up friends, family and relatives just to get ventilator support for my mother. I also paid Rs 18,000 for Remdesivir treatment. By the time we got her to an ICU, she was in severe pulmonary distress and died within 18 hours,” says Suhasini Arora, a 21-year-old law student.
Dread and despair
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ADB, Medanta sign debt financing to help Covid-19 response
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday said it will provide Rs 100 crore loan to hospital chain Medanta for healthcare services and medical equipment to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will support the purchase of personal protective equipment, basic hygiene products, and patient care equipment such as ventilators and beds. It will also support staff training programmes on infection prevention and control. Private sector healthcare services play a life-saving role during health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, said Aniruddha Patil, Head of Health and Education Investments at ADB s Private Sector Operations Department. Medanta s proven expertise and leadership will further improve the resilience of India s health system, enabling it to respond effectively to the current crisis and future healthcare challenges, Patil said.
Medanta to get ₹100 crore from ADB
February 15, 2021
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The Gurugram-based Medanta, or Global Health Private Limited, would get ₹100 crore ($13.7 million) from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in debt financing to provide essential healthcare services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
An agreement for this was signed between Aniruddha Patil, head of Health and Education Investments at ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department, and Naresh Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director of Medanta.
The project will support the purchase of personal protective equipment, basic hygiene products, and patient care equipment such as ventilators and beds. It will also support staff training programmes on infection prevention and control, an ADB statement said here on Monday.