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Covid cases surge in India is making things difficult for the hospitals as there is bed and oxygen crunch. Punjab AAP leader Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Wednesday took to Twitter contending that ventilators supplied under the PM CARES fund were now lying unused in Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital in Faridkot. The Kotkapura MLA urged Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to take action.
Reports indicate that these ventilators had been abandoned after they developed snags soon after installation. As per an India Today report, 71 of the 80 ventilators supplied to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College under the PM CARES fund by AgVa Healthcare had been found faulty.
“We were given 82 ventilators under PM Cares Fund. Out of these 82 ventilators, 62 were not in working condition since the beginning as these are not of good quality. Today, we have only 42 ventilators in working condition,” the VC of Faridkot’s Baba Farid University of Health Sciences told news agency ANI.
