Indian community presents medical equipment to aid HCM City’s COVID-19 fight
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on August 20 held a virtual event to receive an ECMO machine worth 145,000 USD donated by Indian businesses and expats to help the city fight COVID-19.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on August 20 holds a virtual event to receive an ECMO machine worth 145,000 USD donated by Indian businesses and expats to help the city fight COVID-19. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on August 20 held a virtual event to receive an ECMOmachine worth 145,000 USD donated by Indian businesses and expats to help thecity fight COVID-19.
The machine will be sent to HCM City Hospital forTropical Diseases where many COVID-19 patients in severe conditions are beingtreated.
Speaking at the event, Indian Consul General in HCM CityMadan Mohan Sethi said India and Vietnam boast long-standing relations andclose friendship and has always been supporting each other during difficult times.
The Government and people of Indian want to showsolidarity with Vietnamese people and HCM City authorities as the rapidlyspreading COVID-19 pandemic is taking heavy toll on the city, he said.
With support of the Indian Consulate General in HCM Cityand the Indian Business Chamber in Vietnam (INCHAM), the Indian community in thesouthern region has raised funds to buy the ECMO machine for the hospital as a way itshoulders the burden with the host city, Sethi said.
He unveiled that the Government of India will provide 300oxygen generators, capable of producing 10 litres of oxygen per minute each, and100 cu.m of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) to aid Vietnam’s pandemic combat.
Transported by sea, the medical supplies are expected to arrivein HCM City by the end of this month, the official noted.
He went on to say that the Consulate General of India inHCM City stands ready to help provide advanced training for about 200 medicalworkers in HCM City and 300 others in other southern localities.
Chairwoman of the municipal Fatherland Front Committee ToThi Bich Chau, for her part, thanked the Indian Consulate General and Indianpeople in the South for their donation and expected that Sethi will forgestronger healthcare cooperation, particularly in the COVID-19 combat, between HCMCity and India.
She also proposed him to help HCM City gain access toIndia-made COVID-19 vaccines and treatment medicines.
In addition to the ECMO machine, INCHAM also donated 200million VND in cash and 2.5 tonnes of rice to HCM City and cooperated withlocal authorities to provide volunteers with necessary items, such asmedicines, food and personal protective gears./.
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The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on August 20 holds a virtual event to receive an ECMO machine worth 145,000 USD donated by Indian businesses and expats to help the city fight COVID-19. (Photo: VNA)
