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UK hantar tambahan lebih 1,000 ventilator ke India

LONDON: United Kingdom (UK) akan menghantar tambahan 1,000 ventilator oksigen ke India ketika sekumpulan doktor menawarkan televideo perubatan jarak jauh dari Britain.

Britain telah menghantar 495 tangki oksigen dan 200 ventilator ke India kerana negara itu berdepan lonjakan dalam kes COVID-19 dan sedang mengirim tiga unit pengeluaran lebih besar yang digelar kilang oksigen.

Setiausaha Luar, Dominic Raab berkata, pihaknya akan menghantar pakej lain 1,000 ventilator tidak lama lagi.Raab dijadualkan bertemu Menteri Hal Ehwal Luar India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar pada minggu ini di London.

Perdana Menteri, Boris Johnson juga akan mengadakan pertemuan secara maya dengan rakan sejawat India, Narendra Modi, selepas membatalkan perjalanan ke New Delhi.

Britain akan melakukan segala yang boleh bagi membantu India walaupun kerajaan mengatakan ia tidak mempunyai vaksin coronavirus lebihan ketika ini.

Britain adalah rumah kedua kepada diaspora India yang telah menggerakkan rayuan pengumpulan dana untuk membantu membekalkan peralatan oksigen dan pelindung ke hospital di India.

Sementara itu, ahli Persatuan British Doktor India (BAPIO) mengadakan rundingan jauh dengan pesakit yang memerlukan penjagaan yang tidak mendesak di India, untuk mengurangkan beban medik yang tertekan.”Kami cuba melakukan yang terbaik dalam mengutip dana untuk menghantar peralatan dalam bentuk oksigen, mewujudkan kapasiti untuk katil unit rawatan rapi dan sebagainya” menurut Setiausaha BAPIO, Parag Singhal.

Kira-kira 250 sukarelawan dari Britain telah mendaftar untuk inisiatif televideo perubatan atau sekurang-kurangnya 1,000 orang bekerja sama dengan hospital dan klinik yang lebih kecil terutama di wilayah terpencil di India. – AFP

London, May 2, 2021 (AFP) –

The UK said Sunday it was sending an extra 1,000 oxygen ventilators to Covid-struck India, as a group of doctors staged their own intervention by offering long-distance telemedicine from Britain.

Britain has already sent 495 oxygen concentrators and 200 ventilators to India as the country grapples with a devastating surge in coronavirus cases, and is shipping three larger production units, dubbed oxygen factories.

“We’re going to be sending out another package of 1,000 ventilators, very shortly,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC television.

Raab is set to meet India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday on the margins of G7 talks this week in London.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is also due to hold a virtual meeting with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, after cancelling a trip to New Delhi in light of the Covid crisis.

Britain will do everything it can in India’s “hour of need”, Raab said, although the government says it has no coronavirus vaccines to spare at this time.

Britain is home to a large Indian diaspora, which has mobilised with fundraising appeals to help supply oxygen and protective equipment to hospitals in India.

Members of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) have meanwhile started to hold remote consultations with patients requiring non-urgent care in India, to ease the load on hard-pressed medics there.

“We are trying to do as much as we can in the form of fundraising to send equipment in the form of oxygen concentrators, creating capacity for ICU (intensive card) beds, BAPIO secretary Parag Singhal told Sky News.

“So that’s one stream of work, but we are also trying to offer help to our exhausted colleagues in India — doctors are overstretched, they’re working too hard,” the professor said.

As well as phone and online consultations, BAPIO doctors are analysing the results of routine tests conducted in Indian hospitals, he said.

Some 250 volunteers from Britain have signed up to the telemedicine initiative, and the group is aiming to get 1,000 in all, working in partnership with hospitals and smaller clinics especially in more remote parts of India.

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