Amazon India on Sunday mentioned it has joined fingers with ACT Grants, Temasek Foundation, Pune Platform for COVID-19 Response (PPCR), and different partners to urgently airlift over 8,000 oxygen concentrators and 500 BiPAP machines from Singapore.
All the organisations are working intently with the Indian authorities to expedite the entry of those oxygen concentrators and BiPAP machines into the nation, Amazon mentioned in a weblog submit.
These medical equipments shall be donated to hospitals and public establishments to increase their capability to assist COVID-19 contaminated sufferers throughout a number of cities, it added.
The first of those consignments will land in Mumbai on late Sunday evening (on April 25) and a majority of the transport is anticipated to be accomplished by April 30, it mentioned.
India is registering a report variety of COVID circumstances each day that has put excessive stress on the healthcare infrastructure of the nation. The variety of new COVID infections touched 3,49,691 circumstances and a couple of,767 fatalities, in accordance to the Union Health Ministry information up to date on Sunday at 8 am.
The large rise in infections in the second wave of the pandemic has led to hospitals in a number of states reeling below a scarcity of medical oxygen and beds. Social media timelines are crammed with SOS calls with folks in search of oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, plasma donors, and ventilators.
The PMO on Sunday mentioned that 551 devoted stress swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen era vegetation shall be arrange in public well being amenities throughout the nation via PM Cares Fund to increase the supply of the life-saving gasoline.
The PM Cares Fund has given in-principle approval for allocation of funds for his or her set up, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi directing these vegetation needs to be made practical as quickly as attainable.
Also, to make oxygen obtainable to extra folks, the Centre has barred the usage of liquid oxygen for any non-medical goal and requested manufacturing models to maximise its manufacturing and make it obtainable to the federal government for medical use. The authorities has additionally directed all main ports to waive all costs for ships carrying oxygen and associated tools.
Amazon, in its weblog submit, mentioned will bear the price of airlifting these machines, procured via a number of funders together with ACT Grants and PPCR, from Singapore to India, via Air India and different worldwide carriers.
Additionally, Amazon can even handle the motion of those oxygen concentrators and different donations from the native airport to recognized hospitals and establishments.
“COVID-19 has severely impacted India in unimaginable ways. We stand firmly with the country, deploying our global logistics network to urgently airlift the needed oxygen concentrators to support the nation’s immediate need. We continue to explore other meaningful ways to help in saving lives and are committed to support the nation in this time of crisis,” Amazon Global SVP and Country Head India Amit Agarwal mentioned.
Additionally, Amazon India can also be procuring over 1,500 oxygen concentrators and different important medical tools that shall be donated to hospitals and medical amenities in partnership with a number of non-profits together with Swasth, Concern India, and influence organisations like ACT Grants and Sattva Consulting, the blogpost mentioned.
A clutch of founders of Gurugram-based startups has launched ‘Mission Oxygen’ to increase crowdfunding for importing oxygen concentrators.
The startup founders goal to increase a complete of Rs 5 crore to meet the demand of three,000 concentrators. The group has already procured 500 concentrators from China which shall be made obtainable in hospitals by April 28 and one other 500 are anticipated to be ordered by Saturday night, an announcement mentioned.
The fundraiser has seen help coming from Bollywood celebrities together with actor Taapsee Pannu, Abhishek Bachchan and Kunal Kapoor amongst others.
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