Centre provided 1,400 ventilators to Telangana: Kishan Reddy

Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Krishan Reddy on Friday said the Central government has provided 1,400 ventilators to various government hospitals in the State under PM-CARES funds.

He said the State government was getting all aid and cooperation from the Central government to control Covid pandemic through provision of oxygen cylinders, establishment of PSA oxygen plants, ventilators, vaccines, PPE kits, N-95 Masks and free ration to the needy poor.

“In fact, hospitals which did not have even a single ventilator have also been provided with ventilators during this Covid pandemic. Since independence until past eight months, we had only 19,000 ventilators. They were also imported from different countries,” he said, adding that now, through the ‘Make in India’ initiative, government hospitals across the country have been provided with 51,000 ventilators from PM-CARES funds.

According to Reddy, out of 1,400 ventilators supplied to Telangana, Gandhi hospital in Secunderabad got 290 while TIMS in Gachibowli got 190 and RIMS in Adilabad and MGM in Warangal received 100 each. The remaining ventilators were distributed to various government hospitals in the districts, he said.

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