A critical Covid-19 patient’s medical oxygen requirement is approximately 86,000 litres per day. With cases exploding, states are looking to stack up on the vital life-saver.
Of 79 private hospitals in Delhi, ventilator beds at 59 of them are either all occupied or nearly so. Delhi govt, though, is not too worried since most beds in govt hospitals are still available.
The ventilators for use across the spectrum have been designed by 3 Maharashtra-based teams – Shreeyash Electro Medicals, KPIT Technologies, and Nocca Robotics.
Govt is learnt to be working on a proposal to allow PPE, ventilator manufacturers to export surplus equipment after domestic demand has been taken into account.
Officials quoted study by researchers affiliated to Washington-based Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy and Princeton University to say 47,481 ventilators are available in India.
India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.
Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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