📋 Tender Overview
The U.S. Agency for International Development USAID sent a second plane from Travis Air Force Base in California to Dhaka Bangladesh carrying 1200 pulse oximeters and personal protective equipment to protect healthcare and other frontline workers.This shipment includes a generous donation of five million surgical masks from Melville New York-based Henry Schein Inc. and 52000 pairs of protective goggles donated by the California Governors Office of Emergency Services.USAID will continue to leverage relationships with key private sector partnersfrom manufacturers and investors to multinational companies and small- and medium-sized enterprisesto respond to needs in South Asia and beyond arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.The flight builds on USAIDs ongoing efforts to provide urgent medical supplies to help countries in South Asia including Bangladesh India Nepal Maldives Pakistan and Sri Lanka battle rising COVID-19 cases and save lives. USAID is coordinating additional shipments to South Asia in the coming weeks.
