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India is in great distress due to the 'killer' second wave of COVID and people are shaken up with the fear of the unknown amidst the crumbling medical infrastructure and facilities. In this heart-rending scenario, corporates from across the world have stepped in to provide help and support , including the much needed medicines and oxygen to Indians.
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc has decided to donate medicines worth over $70 million, which are essential for COVID treatment. In a tweet, Albert Burla, chairman and chief executive (CEO) of Pfizer says, "Right now, Pfizer colleagues at distribution centres in the US, Europe and Asia are hard at work rushing shipments of Pfizer medicines that the government of India has identified as part of their COVID treatment protocol. We are donating enough of these medicines to ensure that every COVID patient in every public hospital across India can have access to them in the next 90 days free of charge. This effort has the potential to impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients."