Amazon teams up industry, NGOs to bring in 10,000 oxygen concentrators, BiPAP machines into India

Amazon India on Sunday said it has joined hands with ACT Grants, Temasek Foundation, Pune Platform for Covid-19 Response (PPCR) and other partners to urgently airlift over 8,000 oxygen concentrators and 500 BiPAP machines from Singapore.

All the organisations are working closely with the Indian government to expedite the entry of these oxygen concentrators and BiPAP machines into the country, Amazon said in a blogpost. These medical equipment will be donated to hospitals and public institutions to augment their capacity to help Covid-19 infected patients across multiple cities, it added.

The first of these consignments will land in Mumbai on late Sunday night (on April 25) and a majority of the shipping is expected to be completed by April 30, it said.