The World Health Organization chief has expressed fright regarding India’s slamming and ground breaking wave of Covid-19 cases and deaths, mentioning that the organization have been in a rush to assist in taking the crisis under control.
“The situation in India is beyond heartbreaking,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said to the journalists.
His remarks emerged as India fights a disastrous coronavirus wave that has overcrowded the hospitals and crematoriums working at occupied capability.
A rush in current days has seen patients’ kin taking to social media to plead for oxygen supplies and places of accessible hospital beds, and has made mandatory for the capital New Delhi to prolong a week-long lockdown.
“WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies,” Tedros said.
He stated that the UN health agency was sending in some supplies including “thousands of oxygen concentrators, prefabricated mobile field hospitals and laboratory supplies.”
The WHO also stated it had sent more than 2,600 of its specialists from various sequencers, including polio and tuberculosis, to co-operate with Indian health officials to help react to the pandemic.
