Made In India Ventilators

Babar Azam's mother was on a ventilator when the Pakistan skipper went about leading his team to a thumping victory over arch-rivals India in their T20 World Cup match in Dubai last Sunday.

Two students of the University of Kashmir have made a portable ventilator by using just scrap after witnessing a massive shortage of ventilators during the pandemic.

While a recent study has claimed that dining out, and grocery shopping could be more dangerous than air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, partly due to special ventilation systems in airplanes, some scientists say such a comparison cannot be made without knowing if mask-wearing and social distancing norms are properly followed in each of these s...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that "SpiceOxy", a compact and affordable non-invasive ventilator has been made in India that will help address the shortage of ventilators in India.

In a major initiative by the Central government, as many as 35 "Made in India" ventilators have been provided to District Hospital Udhampur, under the Prime Minister's Citizens Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation (PM CARES) fund in the fight against COVID-19.

Nearly 3000 of the 50,000 'Made in India' ventilators sanctioned under the PM CARES fund to help COVID-19 patients have been manufactured and over 1,300 have been delivered to various states, an official statement said today.

Singer-composer Wajid Khan of music director duo Sajid-Wajid, popular for their work on superstar Salman Khan's films such as "Wanted", "Dabangg" and "Ek Tha Tiger", died in wee hours of Monday in a city hospital due to complications arising from a kidney infection. He was 42.

Ashok Leyland, the home-grown commercial vehicle manufacturer, has announced venturing into ventilator production and distribution to help treat COVID-19 patients in India. The company says that it was approached by the Government of India and Tamil Nadu to work with and support ventilator makers and help them improve supply chain and production of...

The situation with the coronavirus pandemic is getting calamitous with each day and the nation could use all the help it gets to fight COVID-19. Today, Hyundai Motor India announced donating Rs. 7 crore to the relief fund, which is in addition to the Rs. 5 crore donation the company made to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Relief Fund.

Daimler is ready to convert buildings at Chennai plant to treatment wards in the case of a major outbreak.

Hyundai India today announced donating Rs. 5 crore to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Relief Fund as its contribution towards the fight against COVID-19. The donation came through Hyundai Motor India Foundation, the CSR arm of Hyundai Motor India, and the company officials have handed over the cheque to N Muruganandam IAS, Principal Secretary to Gove...

China may be blamed for attempting to conceal news on the extent of the virus' spread in Wuhan but we were well aware of the perils by early January. One wonders why governments did not prepare for the possibility, if not the eventuality, of COVID-19 reaching our shores. India's tests and testing capabilities still remain very low. Unless we get lu...

Babar Azam's mother was on a ventilator when the Pakistan skipper went about leading his team to a thumping victory over arch-rivals India in their T20 World Cup match in Dubai last Sunday.

Two students of the University of Kashmir have made a portable ventilator by using just scrap after witnessing a massive shortage of ventilators during the pandemic.

While a recent study has claimed that dining out, and grocery shopping could be more dangerous than air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, partly due to special ventilation systems in airplanes, some scientists say such a comparison cannot be made without knowing if mask-wearing and social distancing norms are properly followed in each of these s...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that "SpiceOxy", a compact and affordable non-invasive ventilator has been made in India that will help address the shortage of ventilators in India.

In a major initiative by the Central government, as many as 35 "Made in India" ventilators have been provided to District Hospital Udhampur, under the Prime Minister's Citizens Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation (PM CARES) fund in the fight against COVID-19.

Nearly 3000 of the 50,000 'Made in India' ventilators sanctioned under the PM CARES fund to help COVID-19 patients have been manufactured and over 1,300 have been delivered to various states, an official statement said today.

Singer-composer Wajid Khan of music director duo Sajid-Wajid, popular for their work on superstar Salman Khan's films such as "Wanted", "Dabangg" and "Ek Tha Tiger", died in wee hours of Monday in a city hospital due to complications arising from a kidney infection. He was 42.

Ashok Leyland, the home-grown commercial vehicle manufacturer, has announced venturing into ventilator production and distribution to help treat COVID-19 patients in India. The company says that it was approached by the Government of India and Tamil Nadu to work with and support ventilator makers and help them improve supply chain and production of...

The situation with the coronavirus pandemic is getting calamitous with each day and the nation could use all the help it gets to fight COVID-19. Today, Hyundai Motor India announced donating Rs. 7 crore to the relief fund, which is in addition to the Rs. 5 crore donation the company made to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Relief Fund.

Daimler is ready to convert buildings at Chennai plant to treatment wards in the case of a major outbreak.

Hyundai India today announced donating Rs. 5 crore to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Relief Fund as its contribution towards the fight against COVID-19. The donation came through Hyundai Motor India Foundation, the CSR arm of Hyundai Motor India, and the company officials have handed over the cheque to N Muruganandam IAS, Principal Secretary to Gove...

China may be blamed for attempting to conceal news on the extent of the virus' spread in Wuhan but we were well aware of the perils by early January. One wonders why governments did not prepare for the possibility, if not the eventuality, of COVID-19 reaching our shores. India's tests and testing capabilities still remain very low. Unless we get lu...