Libya’s National Oil Corporation stressed that thousands of people across Libya will benefit from new medical equipment designed to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

 On the morning of Thursday April 2, 2020, the Sustainable Development Department of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) received the first shipment of medical equipment to confront COVID-19.

The department will start the distribution of this equipment to targeted areas in the near future. 

“NOC is awaiting new shipments that will arrive in the coming days and weeks by air freight. These shipments include aid from our partners such as OMV, Repsol Consortium, Eni and Suncor. NOC continues to communicate with other partners to provide all possible support to fight this epidemic”, said Mr Mokhtar Abdedayem, manager of NOC’s Sustainable Development Department.