Karnataka gets 2,913 ventilators for treating Covid patients (Representational Image)
Amid the pandemic’s second wave, Karnataka has acquired 2,913 ventilators from the Centre to deal with Covid patients in hospitals throughout the state, an official mentioned on Sunday.
“The state has received 2,913 ventilators from the Central government – 2,025 in Phase 1 and 888 in Phase 2 so far. All ventilators from Phase 1 have been installed in district hospitals (578), state-run medical colleges (574), taluk hospitals (708) , composite healthcare centres (24) and private hospitals (141),” an official from the Chief Minister’s Office in a press release right here.
Of 888 ventilators within the second part, 712 have been put in and the remaining 176 might be used as per want.
In view of the surge in optimistic circumstances and rising admission of extreme Covid patients into ICUs, 2,737 ventilators are in use. Demand for further ventilators might be met as per the necessity in any hospital.
“Each taluk hospital has been given 50 oxygenating beds and 6 ventilators in their ICUs after the pandemic’s first wave,” the assertion mentioned.
Admitting that technical snags had been detected in a few of the ventilators put in within the hospitals, the official mentioned the employees has been given helplines of distributors for servicing the machines at any time.
“When ventilators are installed in the hospital, the technical staff are given a demo to operate and an online facility for rectifying snags, if any,” mentioned the official.
The state Health Department has additionally equipped ventilators to non-public hospitals, as they’ve been directed to order 80 per cent of their beds to deal with Covid patients referred by the federal government medical doctors.
In a associated growth, city-based German auto-component main Bosch has supplied to restore ventilators in Covid hospitals freed from price, Deputy Chief Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan mentioned.
Company Vice President Ramesh Saligrama mentioned ventilators with snags could be repaired as a part of its company social accountability.
