Central Government has distributed more than 2.02 crore N95 masks and more than 1.18 crore PPE kits to states/UTs/central institutions free of cost. Also, more than 6.12 crore HCQ tablets have been distributed to them.
The health ministry in their statement on Friday said, “This was the result of combined effort of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of Pharmaceuticals, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and others, domestic industry has been encouraged to manufacture and supply essential medical equipment like PPEs, N95 masks, ventilators etc., during this period. With the result, resolve for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’ has been strengthened and most of the supplies made by GOI are domestically manufactured.”
In addition, so far, 11,300 ‘Make in India’ ventilators have been dispatched to various states/UTs/central institutions, out of which 6154 ventilators stand already delivered to various hospitals. GOI is also ensuring the installation/commissioning of the same. According to Health Ministry, this will help to bridge the massive gap in the availability of ventilators in COVID ICU facilities. MoHFW is also supplying 1.02 lakh oxygen cylinders to States/UTs, out of which 72,293 have been delivered to strengthen oxygen beds there.
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