Even as hospitals at Karnataka grapple with acute lack of ventilators and oxygen after a enormous spike in Covid-19 instances, 1,800 ventilators obtained from the Centre are putting fresh.
Of 3,200 ventilators given below the PM Cares Fund this past year, 1,400 are utilized up to now, in accordance with health department officials.
Approximately 2,000 were obtained following the initial wave and the remainder during the next wave.
Just 150 were in use until the next wave struck the nation, along with the authorities doled out 1,400 ventilators among physicians just in the last couple of months.
Of those 1800 ventilators, most are lying idle in hospitals because of desire of staff, such as technicians, physicians, anaestheticians and nurses, and to run them.
Many are dysfunctional because of technical flaws.