Anyways, coming back to overseas Indians helping India fight the pernicious onslaught of the pandemic we’ve put together an article highlighting some of the sincere efforts being made by the diaspora to help India out. In the USA, several leading organizations such as the Indiaspora, the American India Foundation, Sewa International, Sehgal Foundation, the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), have come forward to rush in aid. The province of Ontario in Canada has flown in 3,000 ventilators to the Indian Red Cross. Like them there are many organizations not just in the USA and Canada but in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, South Asia, Caribbean, Fiji and the African continent that are rallying to save India. After all, the burden of the pandemic inflicted by its insidious submicroscopic agent, the coronavirus, has flattened India’s fragile medical infrastructure.

Vinod Khosla, a pioneering technology entrepreneur in the USA, pledged USD 10 million towards providing oxygen supplies to India amid the second wave of the pandemic. Sewa International that regularly supports 10,000 families and over 1,000 orphanages and senior citizen centres in India is shipping in hundreds of oxygen concentrators. The American India Foundation has joined hands with Paytm and Mastercard to install at least 2,000 portable beds and supply hundreds of oxygen concentrators to India. The Bangkok-based Hindu Samaj Temple has mobilized support to rush oxygen supplies to India and is coordinating with the Indian Red Cross Society.

The Dubai-based EKC International FZE has sent thousands of 50-litre oxygen cylinders to India since March and through to early May. Also in May, the British Airways flew in a Boeing 777-200 loaded with 27 tonnes of emergency medical aid with 1,349 items from England. They included those from the Khalsa Aid International and the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. The consignment included urgent life-saving oxygen cylinders, concentrators, respirators and blood oxygen saturation monitors.