Covid testing at Central hospital of Banaras Locomotive Works on Saturday
Varanasi: The Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), an autonomous grant-in-aid institution under the department of atomic energy, has provided 92 oxygen concentrators to the Varanasi district administration. A total of 150 oxygen concentrators will be made available through TMC in a phased manner.
The TMC runs two cancer hospitals Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital (HBCH) and Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Cancer Centre (MPMMCC) in Varanasi. Both the units were inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 19, 2019.
Director of HBCH and MPMMMCC Dr Satyajit Pradhan handed over the oxygen concentrators to the divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal at his camp office on Thursday. Chief administrative officer of the cancer hospitals, Madho Singh, deputy director of HBCH Dr. BK Mishra and assistant medical officer of Dr. Aakash Anand were present on the occasion.
An NGO distributes ration in Ambedkar Nagar near Backbay bus depot
MUMBAI: US-based Indian doctors and philanthropic groups have joined hands with Parel’s Tata Memorial Hospital to tackle the surge in demand for medical oxygen. On Sunday, 3,800 oxygen concentrato-rs landed at Mumbai and Delhi airports from the US where the devices travelled to nearly 40 hospitals in 15 states. Another batch of 1,500 oxygen concentrators is likely to arrive soon.
Dr Rajendra Badwe, director of Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), said the diaspora has arranged over 5,000 oxygen concentrators in record 10 days. These, he said, will help decongest ICUs and oxygen beds and support patients waiting for a hospital bed. The devices would be distributed to over 200 hospitals in the National Cancer Grid (NCG) and other state and civic facilities treating Covid patients, he said. In Mumbai, KEM, Sion and JJ hospitals will get the devices.
Medical equipment bound for India was loaded onto a FedEx plane at Newark airport.handout
Two planes lifted off early Saturday from Newark airport bound for Mumbai, each stuffed with oxygen equipment and other critical medical aid to help India battle what is now the worldâs worst outbreak of COVID-19.
The airlift was organized in part by a group of Massachusetts business executives of Indian descent, who in the space of just a few days assembled millions of dollars in equipment and donations for the virus-ravaged country.
The flights are part of a local effort anchored by Naresh Ramarajan and Gitika Srivastava, founders of Navya Network, who are working their connections to supply thousands of oxygen concentrators, which are smaller medical devices that can be used in homes to help infected patients breathe. Theyâve raised about $2.5 million so far, and even added a second plane to fly the donated material to India on Saturday: a Boeing 777 cargo plane donated by FedEx,
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Updated May 4, 2021, 8:18 p.m.
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Workers load medical aid onto an Air India plane to be flown to India at Israel s Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, May 4. India s official COVID-19 caseload neared 20 million as oxygen shortages in hospitals exacerbated a devastating second wave, and much-needed foreign assistance continued to pour in.Menahem Kahana/Associated Press
A second wave of COVID-19 infections is causing a crisis in India as the country faces a surge in cases amid shortages of hospital beds, oxygen, and medications. Several groups are rallying support for the country, and the Globe has compiled a list of several efforts below.