Help us to get urgently needed, life saving oxygen equipment to hospitals and communities in India. 

The India Centre and colleagues across the University of Southampton are raising awareness of the devastating situation in India as a result of Covid and asking supporters to donate to the British Asian Trust's Oxygen for India Emergency Appeal.  

You will have seen in the news and your social media feeds, the devastation that the pandemic is having in India right now. Each day, a new world record is set for the number of COVID cases (more than 300,000 in the last 24 hours), with the peak still to come. Hospitals have stopped admitting patients because they are running low on vital supplies and equipment including oxygen, leaving people helpless as they watch their loved ones die on stretchers outside the hospital doors.

The biggest difference we can make right now is to get as many oxygen concentrators to hospitals as quickly as possible. Oxygen concentrators are alternate devices to oxygen cylinders –  while cylinders contain a finite amount of oxygen supply, a concentrator continually recycles oxygen from the air and delivers it to the patient.

THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN MAKE

The British Asian Trust’s Oxygen for India Emergency Appeal will raise funds for these oxygen concentrators, and together with local
partners in India, will ensure they are rapidly deployed to the hospitals and patients that need them most.

Please support the British Asian Trust in their vital work
at this critical time. 

If you would like to contact us about this appeal, please email: indiacentre@soton.ac.uk

The India Centre, in partnership with the India Business Group, the Social Impact Lab, Southampton University Students' Union (SUSU), Southampton University India Society, the International Office and the University's Indian Alumni Network, with support from the Office of Development and Alumni Relations.