India sends 88 nurses to help UAE fight Covid-19
TNN & AGENCIES
New Delhi:12.05.2020
Even as more and more Indians are repatriated from UAE, the government has also facilitated travel of Indian nurses to the Gulf nation which had asked for assistance in the dealing with Covid-19.
A batch of 88 nurses from India arrived in the UAE to help the country’s stretched healthcare professionals amid a surge in the number of Covid-19 infections in the country.
India’s ambassador to UAE Pavan Kapoor said that this would further strengthen the long-standing friendship between the two countries.
“India and the UAE are showing how a strategic partnership translates into concrete cooperation on the ground in dealing with this pandemic. Helping a friend in need is the motto of cooperation between our two countries,” he said.
India’s Consul General in Dubai Vipul said, “It is yet another example of strong India-UAE bilateral ties and reflects deep understanding of problems faced by expatriates as well as UAE nationals in the UAE.”
The fifth day of Vande Bharat Mission saw seven repatriation flights landing in India. While an AI flight was denied permission to land in Qatar, the government said it was for technical reasons.
The special flights included London to Delhi to Bengaluru, San Francisco to Mumbai to Hyderabad, Dhaka to Mumbai, Dubai to Kochi, Abu Dhabi to Hyderabad, Kaula Lampur to Chennai and Bahrain to Kozhikode.
India’s ambassador to UAE Pavan Kapoor said that this would further strengthen the long-standing friendship between the two countries
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