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State splurges on ventilators
Updated On: 07 September, 2009 09:05 AM IST | | Nolan Pinto
Invests in imported ones that cost Rs 14 lakh while DRDO's version, the brainchild of Abdul Kalam, costs only Rs 5 lakh
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Invests in imported ones that cost Rs 14 lakh while DRDO's version, the brainchild of Abdul Kalam, costs only Rs 5 lakh
The state government plans to buy imported ventilators over indigenous ones developed with former president A P J Abdul Kalam's blessings and at nearly one-third the cost.
At a discussion organised by the directorate of Ayush last Wednesday, principal health secretary I R Perumal said 26 ventilators, costing Rs 14 lakh each, would be provided to city and district hospitals in the wake of the swine flu scare.
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