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covid-19 crisis

iaBc sends shipments of lifesaving

medical equipment to india

Stockpile of oxygen concentrator units, converters, surgical gowns, masks,

digital thermometers, oximeters and hand sanitizers dispatched

Our Bureau

Chicago
ndian American Business
Council (IABC), a non-prof-
Iit registered organization
based in Chicago USA, mar-
shalled its resources through
community partnership and
acquired a stockpile of oxygen
concentrator units, converters,
surgical gowns, masks, digital
thermometers, oximeters and
hand sanitizers and promptly
dispatched them to India with
the mission to save lives by
delivering the indispensable
life-saving medical equipment.

after the first shipment
was dispatched, this sec-

ond shipment of these cru- plies and medical equipment committed to play its part in areas more affected by Covid.
are exponentially growing by alleviating the suffering of the
He added IABC shall not stop
cial medical equipment/ the day and with India gearing families afflicted by this dread- until we join India in its fight to

supplies are being sent up on a war footing to ramp ful contagion, added Keerthi eradicate the scourge of Covid.
up oxygen production, Indian Kumar Ravoori. Harish Kolasani, the
out for strategic distribu- American Business Council is Ajeet Singh, IABC Chair- Founder of The India Hub &
tion to vulnerable regions working to complement the man, who is spearheading this Co-Founder IABC, has joined
the IABC’s quest to shore up
efforts of the government and crucial humanitarian mission
of india. other NRI organizations to ship said: “I have seen firsthand additional medical equipment
supplies in its collective fight the unimaginable suffering of and is actively fostering partner-
India facing catastrophic sec- against the pandemic. afflicted patients losing lives ships with hospitals to send ad-
ond wave with its new more le- Keerthi Kumar Ravoori, due to lack of oxygen in hospi- ditional equipment to India.
thal variant and the crying need IABC President, said: “We are tals that are running perilously “This humanitarian initiative
for the oxygen supplies loom- making this spirited effort of low and supplies dwindling at a has been guided under the lead-
ing large, the Indian American sending the life-saving medical pace unseen; It is based on this ership of Ajeet Singh & Keerthi
Business Council intensified its equipment and other acces- compelling exigency, we at Indi- Kumar Ravoori the principal of-
efforts to acquire life-preserving sories to India as we are over- an American Business Council ficers of Indian American Busi-
medical equipment, more im- whelmed to see the lives being quickly initiated this decisive ness Council along with Nick
portantly, oxygen concentrator snubbed out by the evolving plan to mobilize oxygen con- Verma and Satish Dadepogu.
units from every potential ven- lethal variant. Therefore, the centrators and other lifesaving Our next step is to work with
dor and manufacturer and has- compelling imperative of oxy- medical supplies.” the office of the U.S. Congress-
tened the dispatch to India to gen supplies are critical at this The IABC Chairman said men to facilitate granting and
help in this momentous battle of time to wage a battle against the first consignment shipped release of medical equipment/

saving lives from raging Covid. this most deadly variant that out early in May has helped a supplies in the fight against the
The demand for oxygen sup- is devastating lives.” IABC is great deal in saving lives in the lethal contagion.”

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