Health
Bangladesh
Grant & Concessional Finance
- Government of India has gifted 3.3 million Covishield (Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines) to Bangladesh to assist in its fight against the pandemic. Government of India has also supplied 15 million vaccine doses commercially and 9.78 million doses under Covax scheme. Further, two ‘Mobile Oxygen Plants’ were gifted to Bangladesh with the help of INS Savitri in September 2021.
- In yet another first, Bharat operated ‘Oxygen Express’ trains to transport Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in railway containers, as part of commercial purchases made by Bangladesh. 20 such trains operated during the second wave of COVID-19.
