SPAIN WILL SEND AID TO INDIA
Spain will send medical supplies to India so you can fight COVID-19 at a time when it is registering the world’s highest rate of positive, a average of 380,000 infections per day, and the third in deaths, behind the United States and Brazil.
In response to appeal for international aid made by India on April 23 through the European Civil Protection Mechanism, to which they have also joined Germany, Netherlands, Denmark Y Czech Republic by the EU, Spain sends a total of 167 respirators Y 121 oxygen concentrators, in addition to consumables such as filters and masks for an approximate amount of two million euros.
Of the set of material, 111 oxygen concentrators, 22 respirators and consumables have been acquired by the Office of Humanitarian Action of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aecid). In addition, the Ministry of Health has donated 10 oxygen concentrators and 141 respirators, in addition to 4 respirators manufactured and donated by the Spanish company Inbentus.
The Secretaries of State for International Cooperation, Ángeles Moreno Bau, and of Health, Silvia Calzón, along with the Indian Ambassador to Spain, Sanjay Verma, and the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, have attended this Thursday to Baraja’s airport to supervise the loading of medical supplies It will be sent to India tomorrow on a commercial flight with a stopover in Saudi Arabia. The charge, articulated by the Aecid, will arrive in New Delhi on Monday May 10 and it will be handed over to the Indian Red Cross for distribution. A second shipment from Barajas is planned next week.
Apart from the European Civil Protection Mechanism, there will be another shipping tomorrow from Barcelona with 400 respirators and 200 oxygen concentrators on behalf of the Fundación Vicente Ferrer and Open Arms organizations with the support of civil society agents and the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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