Tedros said: “WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies”.
The WHO ‘World Health Organization chief’ on Monday talked about India’s record-breaking hit wave of Covid-19 cases and deaths, stating the organization was hastening to aid plead the crisis.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “The situation in India is beyond heartbreaking“.
He said as India fights a cruel coronavirus wave that has conquered hospitals, with crematoriums going at full volume.
A rush in novel days has examined patients’ families on the social media are begging for oxygen supplies and locations of available hospital beds and has pushed the capital New Delhi to continue a week-long lockdown.
Tedros said, “WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies“.
He told the UN health agency was amid other things conveying “thousands of oxygen concentrators, laboratory supplies, and prefabricated mobile field hospitals”.
The WHO also announced it had assigned more than 2,600 of its specialists from various programs, including tuberculosis, and polio, to work with Indian health officials to help counter the pandemic.
The Britain and US hastened ventilators and vaccine materials to support India overcome the crisis, while a range of other countries also vowed support.
