While most Indians debated the pros and cons of clapping, banging utensils and lighting lamps, doctors took to social media to rather request for personal protective equipment (PPEs) to be able to treat and save Covid-19 patients safely. Day in and out, gruesome pictures of doctors and nurses covered in bruises due to PPEs and masks etc surface online while there are other videos of doctors and nurses breaking down due to challenges of dealing with lack of protective gear and horrifying reality.
On the other end, the rising number of patients has also highlighted the need to improve the capacity of ventilators and respiratory aids in Indian hospitals. Seeing the urgent need, Indian startups across sectors have also joined in the race to develop low-cost ventilators to save the COVID-19 patients. Along with them, Industry experts like Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki and more have also been helping the tech startups scale their manufacturing operations.
AgVa Healthcare
Noida-based AgVa Healthcare has developed a toaster-sized low-cost ventilator, weighing only 3.5 Kg, which can be easily deployed in smaller medical centres and temporary Covid-19 hospitals. The ventilators run on room-air without the need of compressed medical air, and can be used to help less-critical patients, and help them on the path to recovery.
The company has received orders for over 17K ventilators, each costing up to INR 1.5 Lakh. Meanwhile, a traditional ventilator can go up to INR 4 to 5 Lakh. The company aims to scale up its production to 20K Covid-19 ventilators per month, and subsequently scale to six-digits. For this, the AgVa has also partnered with automobile manufacturers Maruti Suzuki.
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For now, over 600 ventilators manufactured by AgVa have been installed in hospitals pan-India.
Source: inc42
