Even as China publicly extended a helping hand to India, Indian Bollywood celebrity Sonu Sood on Tuesday claimed that China has “blocked” two consignments of critical Covid-19 supplies, including oxygen concentrators, to India.
As India battles the second wave of pandemic and the healthcare system faces an acute shortage of medical oxygen, Sonu Sood’s organisation has been trying to source oxygen-related supplies from various quarters to help ease the Covid-19 situation in the country
The actor took to social media to say, “We are trying to get hundreds of oxygen concentrators to India. It's sad to say that China has blocked lots of our consignments and here in India we are losing lives every minute.”
USISPF RAISES ISSUES RELATED TO SOURCING, TRANSPORTING FROM CHINA
The actor’s accusation comes days after US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) CEO,
Mukesh Aghi, raised the issue related to challenges being posed by China in sourcing and transporting the concentrators to India.
In an exclusive interview with India Today TV, Mukesh Aghi said, “Our challenge is logistics. We were sourcing most of these from China. China, for whatever reason, has stopped all cargo flights into India. One of our first consignments that landed in India had to be routed from Shanghai to Tokyo and then from Tokyo to Delhi. We are moving most from Shanghai to Dubai, Shanghai to Bangkok which just adds to the timeline.”
When asked about the disruption that came after China has pledged to help India, Aghi said “One is action the other is words. Action is you stop the flights which is not helping, words is you deliver on them else it does not help. That is the difference.”