MUMBAI: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) has teamed up with two state-owned companies or public sector undertakings (PSUs) to work with an undisclosed manufacturer to simplify the design and scale up production of ventilators in India amid a surge in cases of Covid-19 in the country, a top company executive said on Thursday. "At one end, we along with 2 large PSUs are working with an existing manufacturer of high spec ventilators to help them to simplify design and scale up capacity.
Our engineering team is right now with them working on it," Pawan Goenka, managing director, M&M, said in a tweet. "At the other end we are working on an automated version of the bag valve mask ventilator (commonly known as ambu bag).