Friday, July 11, 2025
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
Ecobuild.club
  • Home
  • Sustainability
  • Insulation
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Eco Build
  • Green Energy
  • Natural Global Resources
  • Videos
No Result
View All Result
Ecobuild.club
Home Sustainability

UN providing equipment and supplies to help India fight rapid COVID-19 surge |

29th April 2021
in Sustainability
0
UN providing equipment and supplies to help India fight rapid COVID-19 surge |
0
SHARES
5
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Related posts

Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts

3rd July 2025

Media Advisory | FFD4 Closing Press Conference

3rd July 2025

“In India’s time of need, the UN is doing everything it can to rapidly provide critical equipment and supplies to central and state governments”, said Resident Coordinator Renata Lok Dessallien. 

In India’s time of need, the @UN is doing everything it can to rapidly provide critical equipment & supplies to central and state govts – including 7000+ oxygen concentrators, lab supplies, setting up of mobile hospitals & oxygen plants: #UNRC Renata Dessallien#UNWithIndia 🇺🇳🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/LPcn4btwA5

— United Nations in India (@UNinIndia) April 28, 2021

WHO and sister agency the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, are procuring equipment and supplies, including 7,000 oxygen concentrators and 500 nasal devices for oxygen supply, in addition to oxygen generating plants, COVID-19 testing machines, and personal protective kits. 

“The current rapid surge of COVID-19 cases has put immense pressure on the health systems, already overburdened since the start of the pandemic. We need to act with speed, expand hospital capacities and equip them with medical supplies, most needed to save lives”, said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director for WHO in South-East Asia. 

The region has led the world in COVID-19 infections for a third straight week, mainly due to the situation in India, which has recorded 2.17 million new cases, or a 52 per cent increase. 

Mobile field hospitals 

WHO is helping India to scale-up additional hospital beds by procuring mobile field hospitals which could be set up in the most affected areas.  The field hospitals have a capacity of 20 to 30 beds but can be increased to a maximum of 50, if needed. 

The agency is also providing for laboratories to meet the huge demand for testing, and over 2,600 staff have been redeployed from programmes for polio and neglected tropical diseases to support pandemic response. 

Meanwhile, in the western state of Maharashtra, the second most populous in the country, UNICEF has engaged experts to work on risk governance.  

In it together 

India this week completed a 100-day COVID-19 vaccination drive, with 145 million doses administered. Dr Khetrapal Singh said efforts to ramp up vaccination coverage are needed. 

She also stressed the need to continue key public health measures, such as testing and contact tracing, along with physical distancing, proper hand washing and use of masks, to curtail virus transmission. 

Dr Khetrapal Singh underlined WHO’s commitment to continue working with health authorities at all levels, saying “Together we must do all we can to halt the current COVID-19 surge”.


Source link

Previous Post

First Person: Panic as COVID-19 ‘tsunami’ hits India |

Next Post

COVID-19 cases rise for ninth consecutive week, variants continue spreading  |

Next Post
COVID-19 cases rise for ninth consecutive week, variants continue spreading  |

COVID-19 cases rise for ninth consecutive week, variants continue spreading  |

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

RECOMMENDED NEWS

How Advanced Transmission Technologies Can Modernize the US Power Grid

11 hours ago

Nature Crime Fuels Deforestation in the Amazon

2 days ago

Investors Look to Nature to Shield Against Growing Risks

15 hours ago

How Centering Communities Can Power US Industrial Decarbonization

3 days ago

POPULAR NEWS

  • How Much Climate Finance Flows from MDBs?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Nigeria: New UN resilience project paves ‘pathway to peace and sustainable development’

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Investors Look to Nature to Shield Against Growing Risks

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • How Advanced Transmission Technologies Can Modernize the US Power Grid

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • What is sea level rise and why does it matter to our future?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Ecobuild.club

ecobuild.club is an online news portal which aims to provide knowledge about Sustainability, Insulation, Energy Efficiency, Eco Build, Green Energy & Natural Global Resources.

Follow us on social media:

Recent News

  • How Advanced Transmission Technologies Can Modernize the US Power Grid
  • Investors Look to Nature to Shield Against Growing Risks
  • Nature Crime Fuels Deforestation in the Amazon

Category

  • Eco Build
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Green Energy
  • Insulation
  • Natural Global Resources
  • Sustainability
  • Videos

Subscribe to get more!

  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy

© 2018 EcoBuild.club - All about Eco Friendly Environment !

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Sustainability
  • Insulation
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Eco Build
  • Green Energy
  • Natural Global Resources
  • Videos

© 2018 EcoBuild.club - All about Eco Friendly Environment !