: Modi government spent Rs 2,250 crore on buying ventilators. Why aren’t they working? #IndiaNEWS Maharashtra was witnessing an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths when 150 ventilators arrived

Modi government spent Rs 2,250 crore on buying ventilators. Why aren’t they working? #IndiaNEWS
Maharashtra was witnessing an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths when 150 ventilators arrived at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Aurangabad in the third week of April. The Union health ministry had sent them. The hospital further distributed the machines to other district and private hospitals in the Marathwada region. But within days, many of the hospitals sent them back. The ventilators were simply unusable, doctors complained.According to a report prepared by a team of eight doctors from these hospitals who specialise in critical care treatment and who operated these machines, patients “started complaining about breathlessness and associated symptoms within hours of the ventilators having been switched on???.A team of engineers from Jyoti CNC, the company that had made them, serviced some of the devices on May 14. But according to a Bombay High Court order dated May 28, citing the doctors’ report, “they worked well overnight??? but “next day by afternoon patients complained about poor oxygen and showed signs of restlessness???.As of date, all 117 ventilators which were unboxed from the batch of 150 lie unused. The authorities at Aurangabad’s Government Medical College and Hospital told the Bombay High Court that they saw no point in unboxing the rest of...Read more

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