Geneva: The World Health Organization chief said that “The situation in India is beyond heartbreaking” while voicing alarm at the developing country’s record-breaking wave of Covid-19 cases and deaths.
He spoke as India battles a catastrophic coronavirus wave that has overwhelmed hospitals, with crematoriums working at full capacity.
“WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
He said the UN health agency was among other things sending “thousands of oxygen concentrators, prefabricated mobile field hospitals and laboratory supplies”.
The WHO also said it had transferred more than 2,600 of its experts from various programmes, including polio and tuberculosis, to work with Indian health authorities to help respond to the pandemic.
