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Direct Relief Sends Thousands of Oxygen Concentrators to India via FedEx-Donated Charter Flights

 A FedEx-donated Boeing 777 fully loaded with oxygen concentrators and other supplies from Direct Relief is flying this weekend to India — for the second time in as many weeks — to help patients with Covid-19 survive the pandemic’s deadliest surge yet.     Clinicians have correlated drastic drops in the blood oxygen levels of Covid patients with a […]

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Fosun and Baoding Med-Joy Medical team up to aid India with 15,000 oxygen concentrators to provide oxygen to local patients

Fosun announced that another batch of medical supplies – 15,000 Med-Joy oxygen concentrators – would be delivered to frontline areas affected by the pandemic in India. In just three days, this is the second time that Fosun has rushed to provide aid to India. Given India’s current oxygen shortage, Fosun and Baoding Med-Joy Medical, the largest exporter of molecular […]

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UPS Lifts 2,184 Oxygen Concentrators to India; Air India to Distribute Across Indian Cities

The first major batch of oxygen concentrators has left Atlanta by air to Delhi. Thanks to UPS Foundation’s generous collaboration with Sewa International, the shipment of 2,184 Nuvo oxygen-concentrators, manufactured by Birmingham, Alabama-based Nidek Medical Products, Inc., is being shipped free of cost to New Delhi, as India struggles with the severe second wave of COVID-19 that has led to an acute […]