The Haryana government has allowed reimbursement of goods and service tax paid by companies, non-governmental organisations and individuals on purchase of 15 items including Covid vaccines, remdesivir injections, ventilators and oxygen cylinders that they have donated free of cost to the state government or state-run hospitals. Haryana is the first state to give such a … Read more
In many cases of Covid-19 treatment, there is a requirement of ventilator support. At a time when Coronavirus cases in India are at an all-time high, with many states facing a shortage of ventilators and oxygen, Hyderabad-based Apollo Computing Laboratories has come up with a portable non-invasive ventilator — SwasthVayu. The indigenous ventilator can be … Read more
India witnessing rising caseload of Covid-19 cases daily. (PTI Image) The big news from India has been the rising viral caseload staying sticky now worryingly at around 4 lakh new cases a day but running parallel now are also reports on the global outpouring of aid, supplies of medicines and equipment – apparently around 40 … Read more
A total of 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators as of Friday, according to government data. Source link
Image copyright Getty Images The NHS now has 30,000 ventilators that can help people breathe if they are very unwell with coronavirus. That is about one for every 2,200 people in the UK – many more than are likely to be needed this winter. Hospitals in England had 7,400 of the machines at the start … Read more
The high-level Group of Ministers (GOM) on COVID-19 has agreed to the health ministry’s proposal to allow the export of indigenously made ventilators. The decision was taken as India continues to maintain a progressively declining low rate of fatality among COVID-19 patients, which currently stands at 2.15 per cent, “which means fewer numbers of active … Read more