US hands over second shipment of 100 ventilators to India in COVID-19 assistance

The ventilators are manufactured in the US and are compact, easy to deploy and provide India with flexibility in treating patients affected by the virus, the US embassy said in a statement.

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NEW DELHI:  The United States on Wednesday announced to hand over the second shipment of 100 new and state-of-the-art ventilators to India in its final tranche of supplies to support the country’s ‘pandemic response’. 

“We are very pleased to hand over the final tranche of 100 ventilators to India, fulfilling President Donald Trump’s commitment to provide these critically needed supplies to support India’s pandemic response,” US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster said in a statement.

According to the statement from the US Embassy, the delivery of the ventilators was facilitated in collaboration with the USAID, Indian Red Cross Society and the government of India.“The ventilators are manufactured in the United States and are compact, easy to deploy, and provide India with flexibility in treating patients affected by the virus,” the statement said. The first shipment of 100 ventilators arrived in India on June 14. Since then, the ventilators have been deployed to support the care of Covid-19 patients at eight AIIMS hospitals across the country.