Efforts of DRDO in India’s fight against coronavirus

Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been tracking the spread of Coronavirus since the world media started reporting its devastating impact in China’s Wuhan Province. The DRDO took a call in the first week of March 2020 to enhance efforts to create countermeasures to stop the spread of the disease in India. By then, the number of affected people in India had already crossed 30. It also started focusing on creating mass supply solutions of critical medical requirements, if COVID-19 becomes a crisis. As a result of the targeted approach, at present, DRDO is ready with four different items ready to be deployed in ‘War against Corona’. Ventilators  Since COVID-19 affects pulmonary functions, keeping in mind the futuristic requirement, the Society for Biomedical Technology (SBMT) program of DRDO has been modified to cater to the current situation. Defense Bio-Engineering and Electro Medical Laboratory (DEBEL), Bangalore (a DRDO lab) has identified a vendor (Scanray Tech, Mysore) to produce a critical care ventilator. It has been created by using existing technologies like breath regulators, pressure or…

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