Ahmedabad (Gujarat): An Ahmedabad-based company is manufacturing ventilators in collaboration with the American space agency, NASA, in the city's Vatva industrial area. The indigenously manufactured 200 ventilators will be launched in the market on May 25 and will be supplied to hospitals in Gujarat.
ETV Bharat team visits manufacturing facility
The team of ETV Bharat visited this private firm and obtained all necessary information regarding the process of manufacturing ventilators from technical experts.
NASA entered into a tie-up with four Indian companies
American space agency NASA had prepared the blueprint of the ventilator after the COVID-19 pandemic started spreading across the world. NASA had then invited applications from manufacturers and had in response received letters of interest from over 5,000 companies.
Of these, NASA had shortlisted 300 companies for negotiations and finally entered into a tie-up with 27 companies, including four from India, one among which is from Ahmedabad. All the machinery and parts for the manufacture of ventilators are being brought from many countries including the USA, Japan and Taiwan. These are then assembled in Ahmedabad.
200 ventilators to be supplied in India
According to Kapil Shah, director, Electrotherm, 70 per cent of the parts of the ventilator are being made in India. The company had made 42 ventilators during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic but after its effect had subsided, ventilators were exported to other countries. Now that India is undergoing a severe crisis during the second wave of the pandemic, the company will be supplying 200 ventilators to hospitals in India at a reasonable price.
Ventilators will be supplied to hospitals after all quality control tests
In view of the recent accidental fire, the ventilators will be put to quality control tests before supplying them to hospitals. The ventilator can also be used as BiPAP in case Oxygen gets exhausted. The ordinary ventilator does not have BiPAP and high flow facility whereas this one has both, says Utsav Jani, engineer.
Doctors will be able to monitor patient’s condition with a mobile phone
The ventilator made by the company has a special feature that enables doctors to monitor the condition of patients, performance of the ventilator, and control the inflow of Oxygen from a mobile phone. All such data will be made into PDF files which can be sent to others, says Jaideep Shah, research and development engineer.
