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.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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