How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis
Donors around the world are giving money for meals, medical expenses, P.P.E. and oxygen tanks, among other essential supplies. Here’s how you can help.
A patient receiving oxygen in a rickshaw while waiting for a hospital bed in New Delhi. Hospitals in India are full, and oxygen supplies are dwindling.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
April 29, 2021, 1:51 a.m. ET
India’s coronavirus crisis is the worst since the pandemic began, and it will probably worsen before it gets better.
Hospitals are full, oxygen supplies are dwindling, and sick people are dying as they wait to see doctors. As workers leave locked-down cities for their home villages, experts fear that the exodus could accelerate the spread of the virus in rural areas, as a similar one did last year.
SINGAPORE - The Singapore Red Cross (SRC) has launched a fund-raising appeal for India as the country battles a devastating second wave of Covid-19.
India registered almost 380,000 new cases on Thursday (April 29), the highest single-day total in the world. More than 18 million people have been infected and the death toll has surpassed 200,000.
SRC aims to deliver assistance and support communities in India by providing desperately needed medical equipment such as ventilators, oxygen cylinders and oxygen concentrators.
Five ventilators are already on their way to community hospitals in New Delhi from SRC through the Indian Red Cross Society.
More than $200,000 was raised in just a day from SRC s online and offline platforms and Give.asia.
After Singapore sent a consignment of oxygen cylinders to support India’s pandemic response, Dr Maliki Osman, Singapore s Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, hailed the close relationship between the two countries. Osman handed over Singapore’s humanitarian assistance to High Commissioner of the Republic of India, P Kumaran, earlier today at Paya Lebar Air Base. In his remarks, Minister Maliki reaffirmed the strong bilateral relations and highlighted that Singaporeans stand in solidarity with our friends in India in their fight against the pandemic . This initiative, arranged at short notice, is testament to the close collaboration and partnership across multiple agencies on both sides. This initiative complements the numerous relief efforts and contributions in Singapore to bring humanitarian relief to India in this time of need, he said. While our contribution is modest, we hope that it will bring comfort and relief to those in need and encourage those on the frontl
SINGAPORE - Singapore has sent two planeloads of oxygen cylinders to help India address its unprecedented oxygen crisis arising from a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force will transport the cylinders on board two C-130 aircraft from Singapore to West Bengal in India.
Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman on Wednesday (April 28) reaffirmed both countries strong bilateral relations and highlighted that Singaporeans stand in solidarity with India in its fight against the pandemic. This is made possible because of the existing close relationship between our two peoples, governments and countries, he said.
Dr Maliki, who is also Minister in the Prime Minister s Office, spoke during the handover of Singapore s humanitarian assistance to India s High Commissioner to Singapore P. Kumaran on Wednesday at Paya Lebar Air Base.
Dr Maliki taking a closer look at the oxygen tanks onboard a C-130 transport aircraft at Paya Lebar airbase on April 28, 2021.- ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Two planeloads of oxygen cylinders are on the way to India from Singapore, to help the country address its unprecedented oxygen crisis arising from a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force is transporting the 256 oxygen cylinders on board two C-130 aircrafts from Singapore to West Bengal, India.
Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman on Wednesday (April 28) reaffirmed both countries’ strong bilateral relations, adding that Singaporeans stand in solidarity with India in its fight against the pandemic.