Centre Gave 1,400 Ventilators To Telangana: Kishan Reddy

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy today said that the union government had given 1,400 ventilators to the state so far.

He said that the ventilators were given using the PM CARES funds.

Reddy said that the ventilators had been dispatched to various government hospitals of the state, and that they were given primarily to hospitals which did not have even a single ventilator.

"In our country, from independence till the last year, we had only 1,900 ventilators. Even those were imported from different countries. But today, through the Make In India initiative, government hospitals across the country have been provided with 5,000 ventilators from the PM CARES funds, and 1,400 of them went to Telangana itself," he said.

Reddy added that the Telangana government was getting enormous aid and cooperation from the union government to control and contain the Covid pandemic, in the form of oxygen cylinders, establishment of PSA oxygen plants, ventilators, vaccines, PPE kits, N-95 masks and free rations for the poor.