HELP INDIA BREATHE is a part of ApShiNi ventures’ (www.ApShiNi.org) endeavor by Dr. Amit Chakrabarty, Urologist in MO, USA and present Secretary of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, (AAPI) in helping individuals to donate Oxygen related supplies to India during this unprecedented calamity.

The American Association of physicians of Indian origin (AAPI), the largest ethnic medical organization in the USA representing the interest of more than 100,000 physicians in the USA has stepped up to the plate to deal with the crisis of India. Thanks to the overwhelming support of its members that AAPI has raised almost $4.5 million in 2 weeks. They have been working very hard in sending oxygen concentrators and ventilators to India, to deal with the calamity in India and are in the process of helping to set up oxygen generator plants in different hospitals in India.

As AAPI cannot direct its resources to specific areas and relies on government of India to distribute its supplies, Dr. Chakrabarty has been working outside the umbrella of AAPI for directed transfer of essential materials, focusing mainly on non-profit and peripheral hospitals who do not get aid readily.

Co-Ventilators to India

With the help of an anesthesiologist from Dallas, Texas, (who prefers to remain anonymous) who acquired the donation of about 1500 co-ventilators from a Health Group based in Minnesota, United States, Dr. Chakrabarty helped to co-ordinate and facilitate transfer of these co-ventilators for use of primarily government and nonprofit hospitals all over India. The team from Oxygen for India (https://oxygenforindia.org/) helped in local transportation and airfreight to India without any charge.

We requested Indian Council of Critical Care (https://isccm.org/) to send the message to hospitals in India that are treating Covid 19 patients and solicited requests from their CEO on their official letterhead, specifically stating that this would be used free and not-for-profit and will not be resold. We were overwhelmed to have received more than 175 such requests, and still continue to get them. Below are links to some sample letters.
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A team of volunteers have painstakingly verified and categorized the hospitals on Google sheets (click link for list of hospitals). Volunteers from Heathcube (https://healthcubed.com/) and American Association of Yoga and Meditation (https://www.aaymonline.org/) are handling local logistics and delivery in India, after doing additional scrutiny.

This is a mammoth undertaking with work still in progress. We will update you the progress.

Thank you for all of your help in this project!

With Gratitude 🙏

We have another project of coordinating donation of 800, ten liter Oxygen Concentrators to different venues all over India, that is in the final phase and we will inform you about that in the next post.

ApShiNi Team