Geneva, Switzerland: Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Chief, World Health Organization (WHO) raised alarm on Monday on India’s record-breaking wave of Covid-19 cases and deaths,

He was saying the WHO was rushing to help address the crisis.

Dr. Tedros spoke as India battles a terrible coronavirus wave that has overcome hospitals, with crematoriums working at full capacity across India. “WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies,” Tedros said.

A terrible second wave in recent days has seen patients’ families taking to social media to beg for oxygen supplies and locations of available hospital beds, and has forced the capital New Delhi to extend a week-long lockdown.

Dr. Tedros 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 health experts from various programmes, including polio and tuberculosis, to work with Indian health authorities to help respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

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