WHO chief on COVID crisis - 'The situation in India is beyond heart-rending'

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WHO chief on COVID crisis - 'The situation in India is beyond heart-rending'

Second wave of Corona continues to wreak havoc in India

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over India’s growing Covid crisis. The WHO has said that it is helping to deal with the crisis. The head of the organization, Tedros Adnom Ghebreyes, said, “The situation in India is worse than heartbreaking.”

The second wave of Corona continues to wreak havoc in India. Hospitals are full of patients and medical oxygen shortage has turned into a crisis

Ghebreyes said, “WHO is doing all it can do. Supplies are being provided from the necessary equipment.”

The WHO chief said that the UN’s health organization is sending ‘thousands of oxygen concentrators, prefabricated mobile field hospitals and lab supplies’ to India.

The WHO said that it has transferred more than 2600 experts from its different programs, including polio and TB, to work with Indian health authorities.

Many countries have come forward to help in the ongoing Covid crisis in India. From Germany, France to Russia and America are helping India. Ventilators are being sent from Britain.

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On 26 April, there was a conversation between PM Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden. PM Modi said that there was a detailed discussion between him and Biden on the situation of COVID-19 in both the countries.

PM Modi tweeted, “In my discussion with US President Joe Biden underlined the importance of an easy supply chain of vaccine raw materials and medicines.” The India-US Health Partnership can address the global challenge of COVID-19. “