204 Ventilators Unused During 2nd Wave, Madhya Pradesh High Court Told
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In May NDTV reported that ventilators purchased with PM CARES funds for hospitals in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were either defective or left unused
The Madhya Pradesh government told the High Court on Friday that 204 ventilators - life-saving medical equipment in desperately short supply during the peak of the second Covid wave - were kept as "back-up" in a storeroom even as the virus spread through the state. It was responding to a notice from the High Court, which had taken suo motu cognisance of the Covid situation in Madhya Pradesh, which has recorded nearly eight lakh cases so far. "204 ventilators were kept in the storeroom, which the government said was kept as backup. 42 ventilators under PM CARES are in Bhopal and 20 in Indore, which were not used in the second wave of coronavirus," senior lawyer Naman Nagrath, the court's amicus curiae, said. 77 ventilators in Bhopal - 42 bought with PM CARES funds and 35 in district hospitals - were either unused, unplugged or there were no qualified personnel to operate the device, the court was told.
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