RI doctors organize flight of crucial supplies to COVID-ravaged India G. Wayne Miller, The Providence Journal
Led by Kent Hospital s Drs. Forman and Thakkar, RI medical relief effort to help India
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WARWICK Laura Forman and Jinen Thakkar know intimately the suffering and deadliness of COVID. During some of the bleakest periods of the pandemic in Rhode Island, the two physicians ran the Care New England field hospital in Cranston.
Now, they have partnered to bring help to a place horrifically afflicted by coronavirus disease: India, where more than 250,000 have died and 23.3 million cases have been recorded. Together, Dr. Forman and Dr. Thakkar have organized an effort that will send desperately needed medical supplies by United Airlines cargo jet to the Asian country.
India is averaging several thousand COVID-19 deaths a day, according to Johns Hopkins University.
“Only a few months ago Rhode Island had the highest per capita numbers of COVID in the entire world,” Dr. Laura Forman, who’s head of emergency medicine at Kent Hospital in Warwick.
So, Dr. Forman and her colleagues are now helping others by sending supplies like masks and gloves to India, which is now a hot spot.
“There aren’t enough supplies, people are dying for lack of oxygen, they’re dying for lack of medical supplies, and medication, and people are dying on floors, because there aren’t hospital beds there,” Forman said.
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