Operation Amistad: India sends medical team, BHISHM portable hospitals to earthquake-hit Venezuela

Operation Amistad underscores India’s humanitarian push as it sends emergency medical support to earthquake-hit northern Venezuela. Two Indian Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircraft departed for Venezuela with more than 35 tonnes of relief equipment, an Indian Army Field Hospital contingent, and two BHISHM Cubes under the Aarogya Maitri initiative. The Indian Embassy said the planes transited through Abidjan before continuing to Venezuela. The medical contingent includes 41 personnel, including nine medical officers, and is designed for emergency care, trauma management, life-saving surgeries and other essential services. The team is carrying nearly six tonnes of medical stores and humanitarian supplies from India’s Ministry of External Affairs. The two BHISHM Cubes are rapidly deployable modular facilities for disaster and humanitarian response, equipped with ventilators, monitors, diagnostics, power generation, and oxygen support. The mission is described as among the farthest humanitarian uses of C-17s.