Arizona nonprofit helps raise $7M to send oxygen concentrators to India
The COVID-19 crisis in India is hitting very close to home for the millions of Indian Americans living here in the United States. Heartbreaking news reports from India depict hospitals overflowing, people dying on the streets, and the death toll has now surpassed 230,000. The crisis has sparked a huge outpouring of support from the world, and from Indian Americans right here in Arizona as well.
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The COVID-19 crisis in India is hitting very close to home for the millions of Indian Americans living here in the United States. Heartbreaking news reports from India depict hospitals overflowing, people dying on the streets and the death toll has now surpassed 230,000.
As India continues to cope with a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin has stepped up to help the country get through the surge.
Of late, India has reported nearly 350,000 new coronavirus cases per day in the past week-plus. The spike in infections has led to deadly shortages of oxygen, ambulances and hospital beds.
Countries around the world have pledged to send aid in the form of medical supplies and vaccine doses, but urgent requests for ventilators and intensive care unit beds continue to flood social media, according to the AAPI release.
Indiaâs large diaspora â long a boon to Indiaâs economy â is tapping its wealth, political clout and expertise to help its home country combat the catastrophic coronavirus surge that has left people to die outside overwhelmed hospitals.
Around the world, people of Indian descent are donating money, personally delivering desperately needed oxygen equipment and setting up telehealth consultations and information sessions in hopes of beating back the outbreak.
Two humanitarian groups in the U.S. led by people of Indian background raised more than $25 million in recent days to help the teetering health care system. Indian American doctors, hotel owners and other entrepreneurs, some responding to requests for help from Indian leaders, have pledged or donated millions more.
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Michigan physicians helping India battle COVID surge from afar
Michigan physicians helping India battle COVID surge from afar
Staffing hotlines to take calls, help educate people in India
Leveraging relationships in U.S., India to purchase medical supplies and distribute to hot spots
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Passengers wait at a temperature checkpoint after arriving at Pune railway station during lockdown restrictions imposed by the state government in Pune, Maharashtra, India, on May 6, 2021.
Teena Chopra, Aniruddh Behere and Ravi Pendse
After seeing her own patients throughout the day at Detroit Medical Center, Dr. Teena Chopra gets on the phone nights to talk with a new round of patients from India.