India Sends 6 Tons Of Medical Assistance To Afghanistan After Earthquake
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
India supplied the seventh batch of medical assistance to
Afghanistan on Thursday consisting of 6 tons of essential medicines
as a part of its ongoing humanitarian assistance, Trend reports citing NDTV .
The consignment was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital,
Kabul.
'In view of the urgent appeals made by the United Nations to
assist the Afghan people, India has, so far, supplied 20 tons of
medical assistance in seven batches, which includes essential
life-saving medicines, anti-TB medicines, 500,000 doses of COVID
vaccine, etc. These medical consignments have been handed over to
the World Health Organization(WHO) and Indira Gandhi Children
Hospital, Kabul,' MEA said in a statement.
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It further added, 'In order to ensure food security in Afghanistan,
India has provided food assistance of 35,000 MTs of wheat.'
Moreover, in the wake of the recent tragic earthquake, India, as
the first responder, supplied almost 28 tons of earthquake relief
assistance in two relief flights. These relief consignments were
handed over to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the UN World Food Program (WFP) and
the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS).
'Furthermore, India is in the process to ship more medical and
wheat assistance to Afghanistan in coordination with the UN
agencies on the ground,' the MEA statement mentioned.
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