Karnataka says 2,025 ventilators in use received under PM CARES

NEW DELHI: Karnataka has so far received 2,025 ventilators under the Pradhan Mantri Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund. The state has installed these in various hospitals of the state to fight against COVID-19. Of the total, 578 have been installed in district hospitals, 574 are in government medical colleges, 708 in Taluk hospitals and 24 have been given to Community Health Centres, the official statement said.

The ventilators supplied by the Government of India are in use and yet there is demand for more of them in the hospitals. The centre said that the state has taken the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facility to the Taluk hospitals-level by oxygenating 50 beds and creating six ICUs with ventilators. Karnataka is in the list of the few states where ICUs have been taken to the Taluk level.