27th April 2021
12:02 am
26th April 2021
3:50 pm
Efforts to relieve a surge in COVID-19 cases in India will see 100 non-invasive breathing aids sent to the country as part of the UK government’s shipment of emergency supplies.
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The UCL-Ventura breathing aid is part of over 600 devices including ventilators and oxygen concentrators being sent to India, which recorded over 350,000 new cases on April 26, 2021.
According to the Foreign Office, nine airline container loads of supplies, including 495 oxygen concentrators, 120 non-invasive ventilators and 20 manual ventilators, will be sent to India this week.
In a statement, Professor Rebecca Shipley, UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, said: “I’m immensely proud of the UCL-Ventura team and indebted to our logistics partner, G-TEM, who after receiving the call on Saturday morning, arranged for the shipment to be sent with the government’s emergency supplies to India’s worst hit areas.