updated: May 06 2021, 12:22 ist
A powerful Indian-American doctors’ group has initiated talks with the Canadian government to urgently donate to India as many as 5,000 ventilators that it had purchased last year at the peak of their Covid-19 wave and are now unused.
Dr Sudhakar Jonnalagadda, president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, said: “We re working with Canada and the government. They have about 5,000 ventilators. It is with the Red Cross of Canada. We are urging the Canadian Government to donate this to India through the Red Cross to address the current Covid-19 crisis,” he told PTI in an interview.