May 22, 2020

USA: President Trump Announced The United States Will Donate 200 Ventilators To Our Friends In India. There Are FAKE NEWS REPORTS That India Is Paying $2.9 Million. The Cost Would Be Borne By USAID.

The Economic Times, India
written by Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
Wednesday May 20, 2020

The US will donate ventilators to India, as announced by President Donald Trump, through the Indian Red Cross Society as a grant, contrary to reports that the consignment will be purchased at a hefty price. The United States Agency for International Development will supply the ventilators to the Indian Red Cross, which will hand them over to the Indian government for Covid-19 patients, ET has reliably learnt.

The estimated cost of each mobile ventilator is about Rs 10 lakh. The US will airlift 200 such mobile ventilators and the consignment will arrive by May-end or early June. This cost will be borne by USAID, people said, dismissing reports that the Indian government would pay for the ventilators.

“It is a donation, as made clear by the US president. The plan, as of now, is to deliver half (100) of them in May and the remaining in June. USAID will soon give the final schedule for delivery,” one person said. “USAID will send model and technical specifications soon.” It was India that suggested that the donation be made to the Indian Red Cross.

Underlining the close partnership between the two countries, Trump said on May 16 that the US would donate the ventilators to India. “I am proud to announce that the United States will donate ventilators to our friends in India. We stand with India and @narendramodi during this pandemic. We’re also cooperating on vaccine development. Together we will beat the invisible enemy!” Trump added in a tweet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded on Twitter by saying: “Thank you @POTUS @realDonaldTrump. This pandemic is being fought collectively by all of us. In such times, it’s always important for nations to work together and do as much as possible to make our world healthier and free from COVID-19. More power to India – US friendship!”
In April, at Trump’s request, India allowed the export of 50 million hydroxychloroquine tablets to treat Covid-19 patients in the US, the country worst hit by the pandemic.

MORE CONFIRMATION THAT INDIA WILL NOT PAY FOR VENTILATORS

CNBC
written by Parikshit Luthra
Monday May 18, 2020

The United States government is sending 200 ventilators to India and this consignment would be a gift from the US while the cost would be borne by USAID or United States Agency for International Development, sources in the Indian government have confirmed.

"The plan, as of now, is to deliver half (100) of them in May and the remaining (100) in June. USAID will finalize the delivery schedule next week", said a senior official requesting anonymity.

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the US government would be donating ventilators to India.

"I am proud to announce that the United States will donate ventilators to our friends in India. We stand with India and Narendra Modi during this pandemic. We’re also cooperating on vaccine development. Together we will beat the invisible enemy!", he said.

Prime Minister Modi also thanked POTUS on twitter for the gesture. "This pandemic is being fought collectively by all of us. In such times, it’s always important for nations to work together and do as much as possible to make our world healthier and free from COVID-19. More power India-US friendship!".

According to reports the total cost of the 200 ventilators is estimated to be $2.9 million and the company supplying these ventilators would be paid by USAID. The US aid agency would soon share the model and technical specifications of the ventilators with the Indian government.

India like most countries has been trying to meet the domestic shortage of ventilators amidst COVID-19 by importing ventilators from abroad. Major automobile manufacturers have also been roped in to make ventilators in collaboration with existing manufacturers.

India and the US have maintained close cooperation since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. PM Modi has spoken to US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and India's External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has spoken over four times in the past few weeks. India had also lifted the ban on the export of Hydroxychloroquine on the request of US President Donald Trump.
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OpIndia.com
written by Staff
Tuesday May 19, 2020

Days after the American President Donald Trump announced that the United States will be donating ventilators to India to support its fight against the menace of coronavirus, highlighting the close cooperation between the two countries to defeat the “invisible enemy”, the first tranche of 50 ventilators are being sent to India from the United States.

Contrary to the raging speculations that a cost element is attached to the donation of ventilators by the United States, the Director of the United Staes for International Development (USAID), the organisation overlooking the donation of ventilators to India, clarified that the ventilators as promised by the US President are a part of the donation and NO COST is going to be charged from the recipient.
Ramona El Hamzaoui, acting director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said, “this is a donation. The US government plans to donate 200 ventilators to India, and we expect the first tranche of 50 to arrive soon”.

Shortly after US President Donald Trump promised to donate ventilators to India, some media houses reported that actually the ventilators are not being donated to India, as they will cost $2.6 million for India. Quoting unnamed officials, the reports said that “each of these mobile ventilators is estimated to cost $ 13,000 (Rs 9.6 lakh at current exchange rates) without accounting for the transportation costs. In all, the ventilators will cost about $ 2.6 million (or Rs 192 million) plus freight charges”.

Soon several left-liberal Indians, who harbour pathological hatred for PM Modi and couldn’t stand the strengthening bond between the two countries, fell over themselves to widely promulgate the unverified reports that the ventilators provided by the United States will come with an exorbitant price tag. From casting aspersions over India’s wisdom of buying ventilators from the United States to mocking the Modi-Trump personal bond, liberals of all hues used the rumours as a premise to unleash their hatred against PM Modi.

Former NDTV journalist Maya Mirchandani, who now hosts a video blog on left-wing propaganda site The Wire, posted a tweet expressing surprise over the price tag being attached to the donations given by the United States. Raising doubts over the Indian government’s economic prudence, Mirchandani wondered as to why the Centre has agreed for an exorbitant trade deal when the country is producing a large number of ventilators.
However, Ms Mirchandani later issued a clarification saying that the consignment of ventilators from the US is a part of donation and India will not have to pay for the critical medical equipment as stated earlier.
Habitual fake news peddler Ashok Swain, who is a glutton for perpetually having egg on his face, jumped the gun to criticise India’s ties with the United States. Quoting the Hindustan Times article which claimed that India may have to pay $2.6 million for the ventilators, Swain took a swipe at PM Modi by saying that India spent $12 million on US President’s 3-hour visit to India and yet the American President is referring to it as ‘donation’.
The official Telangana Congress Twitter handle also actively partook in fanning rumours about the supposed trade deal between India and the United States for procuring ventilators. It criticised PM Modi for apparently not standing up to the American President Donald Trump and paying money for the donations.
Believing the unverified news about India made to pay for the ventilators gifted by the United States, Congress MLA Priyank Kharge took to Twitter to deride PM Modi by tweeting “there are no free lunches”.

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