While medicine and other essentials in the battle against Covid-19 are readily available in the state, the Centre has pointed out thatneeds to improve on theventilator front.
Telangana like Jharkhand, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Nagaland, and Rajasthan is experiencing a shortage of ventilator consumables.
The state is also one of 14 states, which though it has trained personnel, has less than half the number of ventilators installed. Other such states include Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland.
Telangana has 1,708 delivered units and 1,565 installed units.