India is battling a second wave of Covid-19, with widespread shortages of oxygen and medicines. Each of the Northern Ireland-built units can produce 500 litres of oxygen a minute.
Health Minister Robin Swann said it was a "welcome sight" to see the generators arrive in India and thanked "all involved" in the operation. The cargo plane, which also carried 1,000 generators from across the UK, left Belfast on Friday afternoon.
The three generators are among eight oxygen units built as back-up for local hospitals at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The equipment travelled on a Russian plan designed in the 1980s to carry Soviet tanks.
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