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."