In this podcast, the Australia India Institute’s Professor Ashok Muthupandian, Professor Nathan Grills and Dr Haripriya (Priya) Rangan discuss the current COVID-19 crisis devastating India and how the Institute and University of Melbourne are lending support.Professor Ashok Muthupandian is the AII’s Acting Director and the Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International at the University of Melbourne.Professor Nathan Grills is an AII Senior Researcher Adviser and Global Health Professor at the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Dr Haripriya Rangan is an AII Academic Fellow and Principal Fellow of the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne.Frontline charitable organisations that University of Melbourne partners with:•CMC Vellore: 500 Covid19 beds. Requesting support for vaccines, COVID19 tests, oxygen concentrators. •Emmanuel Hospital Association : 20 hospitals in rural India serving the poor. Requesting support for PPE, medications, oxygen cylinders/concentrators.•The Catholic Health Association of India : responding to Covid19 across 3500 health facilities. Melbourne University is conducting training to equip their response to Covid19.
