Lok Sabha Question No. 847 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-23
Subject: Faulty Ventilators and Medical Equipments
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Anumula Revanth Reddy, Manish Tewari, Mimi Chakraborty

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA U NSTARRED QUESTION NO. 847 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23 RD JULY, 2021

## FAULTY VENTILATORS A ND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT S

## 847. SHRI ANUMULA REVANTH REDDY: SHRI MANISH TEWARI: MS. MIMI CHAKRABORTY :

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) the number of ventilators and medical equipments provided under the funds allocated to his Ministry and the number of ventilators out of them that r ainunutilized, State/UT - wise;

(b)  whether  complaints  have  been  received  from States/UTs  regarding  the  bad  quality ventilators/defective medical equipment purchased through the funds allocated to his Ministry, if so,  the  details  of  the  complaints receiv ed  for  faulty  ventilators  and  medical  equipments, State/UT - wise;

(c)  whether  replacements  of  the  defective/nonfunctional ven lators  has  been  done  by  his Ministry, if so, the details thereof along with the action taken against the companies who have suppli ed the faulty ventilators and medical equipments;

(d)  the  details  of  the  firm/companies  from  which  his Ministry  has  procured  ventilators  and medical equipments along with the pricing for such ventilators and medical equipments thereof; and

(e) whether his Ministry is aware that the firms had not received a recommendation from the technical committee set up by Directorate General of Health Services until July 2020, if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR . BHARATI PRAVIN PAW AR )

(a): Ministry has provided 48,446 ventilators to State/ UTs and Central Institutions. The of Medical equipments provided to States/ UTs and Central Insti tutions as on 20.07.2021 at Annexure I.

(b):  The  ventilator  manufacturing  companies  have  a  system  for  feedback/  complain management which includes toll free helpline numbers/ whatsapp group and dedicated emai IDs to capture complaints / any issues regar ding ventilators supplied and installed by them.

The  manufacturers  received  a  number  of  requests  from  the  hospitals/  States  f redressal  of their queries/ issues with regard to ventilators installation.

The same are expeditously attended to by the teams of technicians/ engineers of the ventilator manufacturing company deployed for this purpose.

(c): Ventilators have been supplied with minimum 1 year warranty. Toll free number has b given to user institutions to register complaints with manufacturers. The technicians/ engineers deployed  for  this  purpose  by  the  manufacturing companies  attend  to  such  request expeditiously  to  ensure  uninterrupted  functionality  of  hospital  facilities.  Manufa undertake  training  of  medical  /  para  medical  personnel  o perating  the  ventilators,  carry  out repair,  replacement  of  components/  ventilators  wherever  required  to  ensure  that  these functional and operational.

## (d): Details provided in Annexure II .

(e): Technical evaluation and clinical validation of 'Make in India' ventilators was undertaken by  technical  and  domain  knowledge  experts  under  DGHS.  The  team  of  experts  undertook extensive  demonstration  and  validation  exercise  over  extended  period  of  time  to  s themselves  that  the  ventilators  meet  the  prescrib d  spe ifications  before  recommending  their supplies.

## Details report on status of Medical Supplies for COVID-19

| S. No.   | State / UT / Central Government Institutions   |   N95 masks distributed (in lakh) |   PPE kits distributed (in lakh) |   Ventilators Provided |
|----------|------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|------------------------|
| 1        | Andaman and Nicobar Islands                    |                              4.71 |                             1.84 |                     34 |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh                                 |                             15.63 |                             3.19 |                   5258 |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh                              |                              2.76 |                             1.36 |                     63 |
| 4        | Assam                                          |                             11.96 |                             4.11 |                   1000 |
| 5        | Bihar                                          |                             14.32 |                             6.04 |                    500 |
| 6        | Chandigarh                                     |                              4.03 |                             1.66 |                    109 |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh                                   |                              5.72 |                             2.32 |                    405 |
| 8        | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu          |                              1.84 |                             0.7  |                     80 |
| 9        | Delhi                                          |                             21.17 |                             9.36 |                   1013 |
| 10       | Goa                                            |                              3.22 |                             1.06 |                    200 |
| 11       | Gujarat                                        |                             28.42 |                            16.08 |                   5700 |
| 12       | Haryana                                        |                             12.5  |                             3.16 |                    628 |
| 13       | Himachal Pradesh                               |                              5.5  |                             2.82 |                    750 |
| 14       | Jammu and Kashmir                              |                             13.64 |                             6.54 |                    908 |
| 15       | Jharkhand                                      |                              6.11 |                             3.16 |                   1553 |
| 16       | Karnataka                                      |                             20.31 |                             8.54 |                   2725 |
| 17       | Kerala                                         |                              8    |                             1.89 |                    480 |
| 18       | Ladakh                                         |                              1.9  |                             0.79 |                    130 |
| 19       | Madhya Pradesh                                 |                             15.54 |                             9.02 |                   1611 |
| 20       | Maharashtra                                    |                             32.01 |                            14.83 |                   5554 |
| 21       | Manipur                                        |                              2.67 |                             0.84 |                    247 |
| 22       | Meghalaya                                      |                              2.1  |                             0.57 |                     86 |
| 23       | Mizoram                                        |                              1.96 |                             0.36 |                    115 |
| 24       | Nagaland                                       |                              1.95 |                             0.3  |                    170 |
| 25       | Odisha                                         |                              9.55 |                             2.98 |                    617 |
| 26       | Puducherry                                     |                              3.89 |                             1.71 |                    107 |
| 27       | Punjab                                         |                              7.02 |                             3.73 |                    810 |
| 28       | Rajasthan                                      |                             18.65 |                             9.13 |                   1900 |
| 29       | Sikkim                                         |                              2.1  |                             0.57 |                      0 |
| 30       | Tamil Nadu                                     |                             18.66 |                             5.39 |                   2065 |
| 31       | Telangana                                      |                             14.85 |                             2.81 |                   1400 |
| 32       | Tripura                                        |                              3.66 |                             1.53 |                     92 |
| 33       | Uttarakhand                                    |                              4.26 |                             2.39 |                    800 |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh                                  |                             23.56 |                            14.72 |                   5416 |
| 35       | West Bengal                                    |                             18.38 |                             4.85 |                   1445 |
| 36       | Lakshadweep                                    |                              0.42 |                             0.2  |                     57 |
| 37       | Central Institutions                           |                             59.79 |                            26.41 |                   4418 |
| Total    | Total                                          |                            422.79 |                           176.91 |                  48446 |

## Annexure-I

## Annexure II

| Sl. No.                                                                                                                                       | Company Details                           | Model No.                    | Price INR (Excluding taxes)   |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| 1                                                                                                                                             | M/s Bharat Electronic Limited , Bangalore | CV200                        | 448000.00                     |
| M/s. Allied Medical Limited, 76-77, Udyog Vihar,Phase-IV, Gurugram,Haryana -122015                                                            | MEDITEC 1700                              | 770000.00                    | 2                             |
| M/s. AgVa Healthcare A-7, A Block, Sector 7, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301                                                                      | AV-AD-Covid                               | 148550.00                    | 3                             |
| M/s Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone Ltd C/o AMTZ Campus Pragati Maidan, VM Steel Project S.O Visakhapatnam 530031 Andhra Pradesh, India           | Similar to AV- AD-Covid                   | 148550.00 ModelHFO 765000.00 | 4                             |
| M/s Wipro GE Healthcare (Pvt) Ltd ,Ramnath Tower, Plot No. 29 A, Ekkadithanhal, Guindy, Chennai                                               | GE CARESCAPE R860                         | 1245000.00                   | 5                             |
| 6 M/s. BPL Medical Technologies Private Limited , 17, Ground Floor, Kailash Enclave Opp. Metro Pillar No - 76 Kailash Colony,New Delhi-110048 | ELISA 600 ELISA 300                       | 1370000.00 1275000.00        |                               |
| 7 M/s Jyoti CNC Automation Lodhika GIDC, Vill - 360021                                                                                        | Ltd , : Metoda Dhaman III                 |                              | G-506, , Rajkot 216000.00     |