Friday, September 29 2006 11:11 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: India yesterday (Sept 28, 2006) handed over a second consignment of medicines to Palestine as part of humanitarian assistance worth Rs 10 crore announced four months ago.

"The consignment, weighing 8,500 kgs, was handed over to Palestinian Chief of Cabinet of President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah," officials said here.

The Government had on May 13 this year announced humanitarian assistance of Rs 10 crore (US$ 2.5 million) to alleviate the sufferings of Palestinian people in the wake of the humanitarian crises in their country.

As a part of the assistance, India has been dispatching life saving medicines to Palestine. The first batch of medicines weighing 2,500 kgs was handed over to the Palestinian Authority on August 10.

The medicines consist of anti-cancer drugs, drugs to treat cardiac arrest, hypertension, shock and depression, skin, bone and internal infections, kidney failure, coma, Parkinson disease, schizophrenia, pneumonia and respiratory infections and drugs to be used along with Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy.