Hospitals send COVID-19 relief to hard-hit India
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Several U.S. hospitals have stepped up to provide India s frontl-ine healthcare personnel with much-needed protective equipment during the current COVID-19 outbreak.
Last week, suburban Chicago-based Edward-Elmhurst Health partnered with local social support organization India Hub to donate five pallets of personal protective equipment, including 3,500 isolation gowns, 6,000 N95 masks and 72,000 exam gloves to emergency relief groups in India like the Red Cross. We wanted to make a donation that can help individuals on the ground right now, said Colin Dalough, manager of community and government relations at Edward-Elmhurst. Whatever we can do in whatever limited capacity that we have from afar nevertheless we ll want to try and help those individuals from a humanitarian standpoint.
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For family members here in the U.S., grief and anger are setting in and feeling helpless is a common emotion right now for a lot of Indian Americans. We all know how it feels. Irrespective of the fact of whether you have family in India or not, we all have been through this pandemic experience, said Dr. Anjali Bhagra.
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Covid help from US for India touches half a billion dollars
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Outpouring of support from American government and business, diaspora community
Less than a fortnight after President Joe Biden in his conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged his country’s steadfast support for the people of India, America has responded with an unprecedented financial assistance worth nearly half a billion dollars. Biden spoke at length with Modi last month and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight against the viral disease. He assured the prime minister that the US and India will work closely together in the fight against Covid-19.