India is battling the deadliest days of the pandemic so far.
India’s current COVID-19 crisis has seen the death toll surpass 200,000 and the total number of infections rise above 17 million.
With each passing day, the number of COVID-19 cases in India skyrocket. Over 350,000 new cases are being reported daily, the highest of any country since the pandemic began. Hospitals and health centres across the country are collapsing under the tsunami of new cases, with oxygen, hospital beds and essential drugs running out, even in large towns and cities. Patients in critical condition are being sent away. Without any medical support many will die. Relatives are battling to find care or source oxygen cylinders to help treat or comfort their loved ones at home. Hospitals are being forced to turn away patients as they struggle to cope. Families are desperately in need and require urgent help. Children could be left without their families if we do not reach them in time.
With cases rising exponentially, many more people will die if we do not send urgent help.
We need to act now.
Our teams on the ground are working to reach families desperately in need. UNICEF need your help to save lives and deliver urgent supplies to health centres.
Your emergency donation will help:
- Increase access to life-saving oxygen by delivering Oxygen Generation Plants to hospitals to treat severe and critical COVID-19 cases. Every plant can support 500 patients at a time to breathe and survive.
- Provide rapid, accurate testing machines in some of the most affected districts.
- Support communities and essential workers to weather this storm and prevent further disruption to outreach programs and services for children.
- Support the ongoing distribution of COVID-19 vaccines through the UNICEF-supported COVAX initiative.
Donate and send lifesaving supplies to India now.
Your help has never been more urgently needed.
In the event that UNICEF receives more funds than we need to respond to the immediate needs of the India COVID crisis your gift will help support UNICEF’s work to purchase and deliver COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments around the world.
