“Covid Relief India – Team Europe”
ven 28 mag
|Conference
Join this enabling information session, and learn how you - as an EU organization, EEN partner or business support organization - can contribute to the task force efforts. Call for engagement! Join in the efforts to support the relief of India’s Covid challenges.
Time & Location
28 mag 2021, 14:30 – 15:30 GMT+5:30
Conference
Guests
About the Event
India is currently at the epicenter of the global pandemic. Over half of the world's cases of COVID-19 are in India right now, with the numbers of new daily cases consistently over the 400,000 mark. One in four of the world’s COVID-19 deaths are occurring in India, with the actual numbers likely to be much higher than those recorded. The capacity of hospitals and the entire healthcare infrastructure is beyond stretched: hospitals have stopped admitting patients because they are running low on vital supplies, equipment, and oxygen.
The need of the hour is hands-on support to India – supplying in large numbers oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders, oxygen plants, other medical equipment and solutions, and medical supplies. Great and swift support has already been extended by various European Union Member States via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Complementing this commendable effort, additional support is being facilitated by some EU bilateral chambers…