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France to send oxygen production units to India

2021-04-28T14:10:44.016Z


France will send eight oxygen production units as well as oxygen containers and respirators to India, facing a dramatic outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday evening. . Read also: India sinks under the second wave of Covid-19 The equipment, which will be transported by plane and boat from the end of the week, is intended "to respond to the


France will send eight oxygen production units as well as oxygen containers and respirators to India, facing a dramatic outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday evening. .

Read also: India sinks under the second wave of Covid-19

The equipment, which will be transported by plane and boat from the end of the week, is intended

"to respond to the emergency but also to significantly and sustainably strengthen the capacities of Indian hospitals"

, noted the Quai d ' Orsay in a press release. The eight oxygen production units

“will each be able to make an Indian hospital autonomous in oxygen for ten years”

and immediately

“supply 15 intubated Covid patients in an intensive care unit”

, he clarified.

The liquefied oxygen containers - five of which will be transported

"initially"

- will supply up to 10,000 patients per day with medial oxygen.

France will also deliver

"specialized medical equipment containing in particular 28 respirators and their consumables as well as 200 electric syringe pumps"

.

"This solidarity is at the heart of our strategic partnership and of the friendship between the French and Indian peoples"

, noted French diplomacy.

The operation is being carried out by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the support of a dozen French companies based in India, in a climate of European cooperation, the French presidency noted for its part.

Chaos

The European Union has pledged to provide

“assistance”

to India

through its European Civil Protection Mechanism

.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel also announced emergency aid.

The United States, for its part, announced that it would

"immediately"

send components for the production of vaccines and medical equipment.

Read also: India: to survive the Covid-19, oxygen is traded on the black market

In a few days, the "Indian" variant plunged this country of 1.3 billion inhabitants into chaos, patients dying in hospitals saturated by lack of oxygen. India on Sunday recorded a world record of nearly 350,000 people infected in a single day. With more than 192,000 dead, the country ranks fourth among the countries most bereaved by the Covid-19.

Source: lefigaro

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