My mother was admitted to Sultanpur District Hospital after her oxygen and blood glucose levels dropped. She needed ventilator support, but none of them were functional.
Ventilators, which help patients breathe, are found in a hospital’s ICU and are traditionally operated by specialists in critical care medicine, called intensivists.
Punjab doctors say that even with ventilators that do work, there have been instances where they’ve turned off on their own while being used on patients.
At Off The Cuff, IIT-Kanpur alumnus & entrepreneur Srikant Sastri and IIT-Kanpur scientist Amitabha Bandyopadhyay talk about startups in India & their world-class ventilator
In ‘The Ventilator Project’, Srikant Sastri and Amitabha Bandyopadhyay write about how IIT-K’s Nocca Robotics built an ICU ventilator to save Covid patients.
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