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Local ventilators need of the hour to prepare for Covid-19
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As coronavirus infections surge, experts fear that India’s creaking healthcare system is ill-equipped to handle a more widespread outbreak and shortages of critical tools such as ventilators to treat the respiratory disease may force doctors to deny life-saving care to patients.
The demand for ventilators in India is expected to surge to 1 million by July, while the availability is 30,000- 50,000, according to estimates released by Johns Hopkins University, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, and Princeton University.
Going by the infection rates, more than 400 million Indians are likely to be infected by July, warn experts. At the peak, 700,000 to 1.2 million people are likely to need critical care. “We are not yet ready
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