Prime Healthcare Sending Humanitarian Aid and Life Saving COVID-19 Relief to India ● Prime Healthcare is helping address the humanitarian crisis in India by sending critically needed medical equipment, oxygen concentrators, and supplies to areas in most need ● Relief is in response to the worst COVID-19 surge in this pandemic ● Hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen insufficient as cases reach record numbers
ONTARIO CA – In response to an overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases in India, Prime Healthcare committed to send desperately needed humanitarian aid, medical equipment, and supplies for immediate distribution. Shipments of more than 500 oxygen concentrators and other medical aid will begin arriving this week. “The current surge in India represents a humanitarian crisis that we must all come together to address. The surge is putting incredible demands on the hospitals and healthcare system and we are sending the most critically needed and life-saving resources such as oxygen concentrators,” said Prem Reddy, MD, chairman, president, and CEO of Prime Healthcare who immigrated to the United States from India in the 1970s. “Many have friends and family who have been impacted in India and our hearts are with them. In the U.S., we have seen the incredible impact of our work in saving and changing lives and we hope our relief efforts will do the same in India.”