Robert Blanchard, logistics and supply operations manager for WHO - Dubai, left, and Nabil Sultan, divisional senior vice president for Emirates SkyCargo.
Aid items, including multipurpose tents supplied by the World Health Organisation, being loaded at the warehouses in International Humanitarian City in Dubai. Photos by Antonie Robertson / The National
An Emirates SkyCargo will fly the relief items to Delhi on Thursday to help stem the surge in Covid-19 cases in India.
Jehad Abdulmaula, logistics and supply chain expert at IHC in Dubai, gives media a tour of the refrigeration facilities which stores Covid-19 medicine destined for India.
The shipment, the first of three in the next week, is part of an Emirates initiative to offer cargo free-of-charge to NGOs. The first cargo flight will carry mainly multipurpose tents, worth an estimated $10,000 each.
Teams will work through the day and night over the next few days to prepare the packages at warehouses in International Humanitarian City, where dozens of aid agencies are based.
As India's devastating Covid-19 crisis mounted last month, countries around the world have been sending emergency medical supplies to help curb the virus.
Initial efforts will focus on mobilising and sending out aid from locally-based NGOs, but the initiative is open to agencies based overseas too.
Workers in Dubai load trucks with aid items which will fly out to India later this week.
A warehouse stacked high with relief items such as PPE, oxygen cylinders and diagnostic equipment.
Robert Blanchard, logistics and supply operations manager for WHO - Dubai, left, and Nabil Sultan, divisional senior vice president for Emirates SkyCargo.
Aid items, including multipurpose tents supplied by the World Health Organisation, being loaded at the warehouses in International Humanitarian City in Dubai. Photos by Antonie Robertson / The National
An Emirates SkyCargo will fly the relief items to Delhi on Thursday to help stem the surge in Covid-19 cases in India.
Jehad Abdulmaula, logistics and supply chain expert at IHC in Dubai, gives media a tour of the refrigeration facilities which stores Covid-19 medicine destined for India.
The shipment, the first of three in the next week, is part of an Emirates initiative to offer cargo free-of-charge to NGOs. The first cargo flight will carry mainly multipurpose tents, worth an estimated $10,000 each.
Teams will work through the day and night over the next few days to prepare the packages at warehouses in International Humanitarian City, where dozens of aid agencies are based.
As India's devastating Covid-19 crisis mounted last month, countries around the world have been sending emergency medical supplies to help curb the virus.
Initial efforts will focus on mobilising and sending out aid from locally-based NGOs, but the initiative is open to agencies based overseas too.
Workers in Dubai load trucks with aid items which will fly out to India later this week.
A warehouse stacked high with relief items such as PPE, oxygen cylinders and diagnostic equipment.
Robert Blanchard, logistics and supply operations manager for WHO - Dubai, left, and Nabil Sultan, divisional senior vice president for Emirates SkyCargo.
