India’s leading passenger vehicle manufacturers, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Saturday announced their plans to help scale up the production of ventilators and testing kits available to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Maruti Suzuki has decided to manufacture 10,000 ventilators in collaboration with AgVA Healthcare, an existing approved manufacturer of ventilators.
Hyundai, on the other hand, will import testing kits from South Korea to help 25,000 patients. “AgVa Healthcare would be responsible for the technology, performance and related matters for all the ventilators produced and sold by them.