Equipment and personnel are transported on a French Air Force plane. (Representative)
New Delhi:
A French Air Force plane will bring ventilators, test kits and other medical equipment to India on Tuesday as part of France’s COVID-19 assistance, its embassy said.
President Emmanuel Macron had recently announced the donation of medical equipment to India, as well as the provision of technical expertise, according to a statement from the French Embassy.
As part of this medical assistance program, France is donating to India 50 Osiris-3 ventilators and 70 Yuwell 830 ventilators with BiPAP mode, he said.
Osiris ventilators are particularly useful for emergency transport, intra-hospital transfer and recovery. They have different modes of ventilation, including non-invasive ventilation, he says.
Yuwell 830 ventilators have two-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) – a non-invasive technique for delivering oxygen to the lungs without intubation. These high-quality ventilators meet the needs of Indian hospitals, the embassy said.
France will also donate 50,000 high-quality IgG / IgM serological test kits and 50,000 swabs from the nose and throat and medical modes of transport, the statement said.
The French embassy said an expert mission on inter-hospital transfers by military means was also sent.
The French Air Force will deliver the equipment on Tuesday.
“The equipment and personnel are transported on a French Air Force A330 MRTT fitted with a Morpheus kit, which allows the transport of seriously ill patients,” he said.
Emmanuel Lenain, French Ambassador to India, will hand over the medical equipment to R K Jain, secretary general of the Indian Red Cross, at the Palam Air Force Station in Delhi, the embassy said.
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