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India receives medical supplies from France to counter Kovid Surge
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According to a press release, this airfreight is the first phase of France’s solidarity mission.
New Delhi:
In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, India received several essential medical supplies and equipment from France on Sunday to help fight the second wave of coronaviruses.
According to sources, the medical supplies received from France today include eight oxygen generators, 28 ventilators, 200 electric syringe pumps, 28 AFNOR / BS flexible tubes, 500 anti-bacterial filters, 500 machine filters and 500 related patient circuits. The total weight of these materials is more than 28 tons.
These eight generators are Nowhere Premium RX 400 hospital level oxygen generators, with each unit capable of providing annual oxygen for 250 beds. Sources said that these world-class generators will make oxygen autonomous to 8 hospitals for more than 10 years.
A shipment from the United Kingdom, containing 120 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi in the morning.
#WATCH | Another shipment from the United Kingdom, containing 120 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi earlier this morning.#COVID19pic.twitter.com/MrrKRw54yJ
Meanwhile, a number of leading countries including the US, France, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Belgium, Romania, Luxembourg, Singapore, Portugal, Sweden, New Zealand, Kuwait and Mauritius have announced medical assistance to India to help it fight the pandemic.
France said it will send to India five containers of liquid medical oxygen and each of them is capable of supplying medical oxygen to up to 10,000 patients per day.
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Singapore Second Minister of Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman, second right, speaks with Indian High Commissioner P Kumaran, right, during a handover of humanitarian assistance. (Photo | AP) By PTI
NEW DELHI: The first consignments of medical supplies from the US and Russia are expected to reach India in the next two days and Indian missions abroad were told to focus on procurement of oxygen-related equipment and critical medicines such as Remdesivir, sources said on Wednesday.