“We were given 82 ventilators under PM Cares Fund. Out of these 82 ventilators, 62 were not in working condition since the beginning as these are not of good quality. Today, we have only 42 ventilators in working condition,” the VC of Faridkot’s Baba Farid University of Health Sciences told news agency ANI.
Going by updates shared online, the issue had also been flagged by the Punjab government. On May 1, the Punjab administration had written to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare highlighting the issue of 809 ventilators provided to the State under PM Cares Fund “not being installed and malfunctioning”.
As per the letter, the Punjab government had received 809 ventilators under the PM CARES fund from the Government of India. “There has been a number of complaints regarding malfunctioning of these ventilators and also ventilators have not been installed at some of the locations even till date. The representatives from the company have been approached time and again to get the mal-functioning of the ventilators repaired so that they could be put to proper use. Similarly, the uninstalled ventilators need to be installed on priority as the state is in the grip of severe second wave of COVID-19,” the letter adds.
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