IAF Transported 600 Tonnes of Medical Equipment, Other Essential Items Since Nationwide Lockdown

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has transported roughly 600 tonnes of medical tools and different important provides until date for the reason that starting of the coronavirus lockdown, the Defence Ministry mentioned on Monday. On April 25, the IAF’s transport plane landed on the Lengpui airport in Aizawl with 22 tonnes of medical provides for combating COVID-19, the ministry mentioned in a press release.

The gadgets had been airlifted for the governments of Mizoram and Meghalaya, it added.

India has been beneath lockdown since March 25 to curb the unfold of coronavirus, which has contaminated greater than to 28,000 individuals and killed 886 within the nation until now.

All industrial passenger flights have been suspended for the lockdown interval. However, cargo flights, medical evacuation flights and particular flights permitted by the aviation regulator DGCA are allowed to function.

The ministry mentioned, “Till date, the IAF has transported approximately 600 tonnes of medical equipment and support material.”

A 15-member speedy response group of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) was despatched to Kuwait on April 11 in response to the request from Kuwait to the Indian authorities.

On completion of the duty, the group was airlifted again from Kuwait in a C-130 plane of the IAF on April 25, the ministry mentioned.

“During the return, a six-year-old girl, suffering from cancer and requiring immediate emergency surgery, was also evacuated along with her father,” it mentioned.