Complaint of failure of cheap ventilators in India

Ventilators called Dhamman 1, made by a company in the Indian state of Gujarat, have reportedly failed to fight the corona virus epidemic.

The leader of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital has written a letter to the Medical Services Corporation Limited in this regard. The letter said that the ventilators given to the patients were used for their treatment but the head of the anesthesia department said that both the ventilators were not helping the patients as expected.

The letter states that the 1,200-bed Code Nineteen Hospital needs standard ventilators.

"The ventilators have been sold after approval from the Electronics and Quality Development Board," Shuangi Lakhani, a spokesman for Jyoti CNC, a company that manufactures Dhaman ventilators, told the BBC.

"It simply came to our notice then. We have not sold these machines to the Gujarat government but donated them. There is no problem with all the ventilators we have provided.

According to the Jyoti CNC website, the company had said it would donate 1,000 ventilators to the Gujarat government to combat the Corona epidemic.