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By: Naama Barak - June 17, 2021
As India continues to battle with Covid-19, Israeli aid organization SmartAID is distributing some 3,800 oxygen concentrators to medical facilities across the subcontinent that are overwhelmed by the high rates of infection and disease.
India, which has seen the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the world, is still facing thousands of deaths from the pandemic each day and more than a million active cases of the disease.
SmartAID’s Israeli and international staff, together with the Ted Arison Family Foundation, DHL, the Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust and Indian logistics company Blue Dart, are providing the oxygen concentrators to dozens of rural medical clinics, hospitals and community-based health centers.
In addition, SmartAID is working with local grassroots organizations to register online tens of thousands of families livening in remote villages and towns for vaccination.
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