Amid Surge In Number Of Coronavirus Cases, Government To Procure 40,000 New Ventilators In 3 Months

[Andhadhun]

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Amid Surge In Number Of Coronavirus Cases, Government To Procure 40,000 New Ventilators In Next Three Months

Covid 19

In a major boost to the nation's battle against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Government on Friday (27 March) placed the order for the acquisition of 40,000 new ventilators in the next three months, reports Hindustan Times.

The development comes as the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continues to surge, which could overwhelm the existing healthcare facilities and capacity in the nation, causing a major shortage of ventilators.

Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said that the Ministry has asked a “PSU to make 10,000 ventilators and another 30,000 will come from Bharat Electricals, a PSU under the Defence Ministry,” reports The Hindu.

According to the Health Ministry, the confirmed Covid-19 cases in India have increased to 873 with 19 fatalities recorded so far. As many as 79 patients have recovered so far.

The government has also asked the states to enhance efforts to track down thousands of people who have returned from abroad.

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has warned the Chief Secretaries of all states over the big gap in the number of international passengers who should have been monitored, and the actual number of such passengers. He underscored that the gap in this regard could "seriously jeopardise our efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19."

The letter written by Gauba to the Chief Secretaries of states highlighted that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs' Bureau of Immigration had already shared details of more than 15 lakh incoming international passengers with the states and UTs for monitoring.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

Hindustan.

 

[Andhadhun]

11 Garments Company are making PPE and N95 Masks for Doctors, Health workers and Public

5000 PPE Suits Manufactured in 2 Day

10 Lakh N95 Masks Manufactured and Supplied from Feb 2nd week

 

[Andhadhun]

Hyderabad University professor designs potential vaccine candidate against Novel Coronavirus

These are the first such studies on nCoV vaccine design from India exploring whole coronaviral proteome across structural and non-structural proteins that make up the virus.

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Dr. Seema Mishra, faculty of the Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH) has designed potential vaccine candidates which are called T cell epitopes believed to be working against all the structural and non-structural proteins of novel coronavirus-2(2019-nCoV) for experimental testing. The candidates of the vaccine are small coronaviral peptides, molecules that will be used by cells to trigger an immune response to destroy cells harbouring these viral peptides.

Dr. Seema Mishra has designed these potential epitopes in a way that can be used to vaccinate the entire population by using powerful immunoinformatics approaches with computational software.

Normally, a discovery of vaccine takes an elongated tenure of upto 15 years but the powerful computational tools helped in enlisting these vaccine candidates in a minimal time of about 10 days. A list of potential candidates, which are based on how much effect they will be used by human cells to stop the virus, has been generated. These coronaviral epitopes pose no cross-reactivity to human cells and hence the immune response will be against viral proteins and not human proteins as there are no matches in the human protein pool.

The study states that “that surface (spike) and membrane proteins of nCoV provide with very less number of promiscuous epitopes with high degree of unique epitopes across alleles. This shows that these proteins may be less immunogenic and the vaccination strategy using these proteins may not work at entire population level across continents.”

The results have been disseminated to the scientist community using the ChemRxiv preprint platform for urgent experimental essays.

These are the first such studies on nCoV vaccine design from India exploring whole coronaviral proteome across structural and non-structural proteins that make up the virus.

Still, right now the best defence to prevent nCoV infections is social distancing. Vaccination may take some time due to the need for further work on these candidate epitopes.

https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/hyderabad-university-seema-mishra-potential-vaccine-coronavirus/

 

[UKBengali]

Good luck to India on production of these ventilators.

Hope India is able to be generous and spare a fraction of these ventilators for other countries in the region.

PS - Can anyone advise if any Indian companies currently manufacture ventilators?

 

[Andhadhun]

Good luck to India on production of these ventilators.

Hope India is able to be generous and spare a fraction of these ventilators for other countries in the region.

PS - Can anyone advise if any Indian companies currently manufacture ventilators?

Here is one,

https://www.narang.com/icu-equipments/ventilator/index.php


Or you can search here,

https://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/icu-ventilator.html?biz=10

 

[UKBengali]

Here is one,

https://www.narang.com/icu-equipments/ventilator/index.php


Or you can search here,

https://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/icu-ventilator.html?biz=10

In the UK, the government is trying a two track approach in that it is scaling up manufacture of existing ventilators and also going for simple clean-sheet designs, so that the risk is minimised of ending up with ventilators that do not work properly while getting as much ventilators in the shortest time possible.

Do you know what track the Indian government has decided on?

 

[Mrc]

Good number but from where?? All supplies choked at the moment

U will be lucky to find a seller with 10 ventilators

 

[Andhadhun]

In the UK, the government is trying a two track approach in that it is scaling up manufacture of existing ventilators and also going for simple clean-sheet designs, so that the risk is minimised of ending up with ventilators that do not work properly while getting as much ventilators in the shortest time possible.

Do you know what track the Indian government has decided on?

Like the article mentions, GoI has decided to buy 40,000 of these from Govt. PSU's. Bharat Electricals would make 30K of them.

DRDO would make 10 k of them by outsourcing manufacturing to Tata or Mahindra.

Also Maruti Suzuki has jumped into manufacturing Ventilators during this crisis.

Good number but from where?? All supplies choked at the moment

U will be lucky to find a seller with 10 ventilators

Why would GoI go to sellers ? they would go to Manufacturers.

 

[UKBengali]

Like the article mentions, GoI has decided to buy 40,000 of these from Govt. PSU's. Bharat Electricals would make 30K of them.

DRDO would make 10 k of them by outsourcing manufacturing to Tata or Mahindra.

Also Maruti Suzuki has jumped into manufacturing Ventilators during this crisis.

Yes I have read the article but would they use an existing design that is proven and just scale this up and/or go with clean sheet design? If you do not know that is fine as more details will be revealed soon as this is breaking news

My opinion is to do what UK is doing and scale up an existing design and then produce a simple clean-sheet design in mass. India has the tech and expertise in ventilator production and so it should be able to do this like the UK.

 

[Mrc]

Chinese make 15000 ventilators per year.

Thats supposed to be more capacity than rest of world combined

u telling me these indian manufacturers will deliver 40 000 ventilators i' what time frame?? Realistically it will take 5 years but let's hear your response

 

[Andhadhun]

Yes I have read the article but would they use an existing design that is proven and just scale this up and/or go with clean sheet design? If you do not know that is fine as more details will be revealed soon as this is breaking news

My opinion is to do what UK is doing and scale up an existing design and then produce a simple clean-sheet design in mass. India has the tech and expertise in ventilator production and so it should be able to do this like the UK.

I don't think UK has too many manufacturing industries left. Ventilators are not really all that Hi-Tech machines.

Its basically just a motor and a control unit. And some display unit if someone wants to be fancy. The design though have to be cleared by some Medical body. Same with manufacturing too.

UK wold probably just import this stuff.

Most private hospitals would purchase it from private manufacturers too. GoI has to worry about opposition claiming "corruption" , so they are buying it from PSU's.

 

[Mrc]

Like the article mentions, GoI has decided to buy 40,000 of these from Govt. PSU's. Bharat Electricals would make 30K of them.

DRDO would make 10 k of them by outsourcing manufacturing to Tata or Mahindra.

Also Maruti Suzuki has jumped into manufacturing Ventilators during this crisis.



Why would GoI go to sellers ? they would go to Manufacturers.

Chinese make 15000 ventilators per year.

Thats supposed to be more capacity than rest of world combined

u telling me these indian manufacturers will deliver 40 000 ventilators in what time frame?? Realistically it will take 5 years but let's hear your response

Political people making fool of janta

 

[Andhadhun]

Chinese make 15000 ventilators per year.

Thats supposed to be more capacity than rest of world combined

u telling me these indian manufacturers will deliver 40 000 ventilators in what time frame?? Realistically it will take 5 years but let's hear your response

Political people making fool of janta

LOL. Somebody has been lying to you

There are not too many Ventilators manufactures because there is not much demand for Ventilators.

 

[Mrc]

LOL. Somebody has been lying to you

There are not too many Ventilators manufactures because there is not much demand for Ventilators.

And??? How these 40 k ventilators will be delivered??