The Indian HealthTech Manufacturers that Provide Ventilators at Low Cost
Published on : Saturday 04-04-2020
A ventilator is a machine that provides mechanical ventilation and takes over the body's breathing process when a disease causes the lungs to fail. In the current situation where the entire world is fighting against a pandemic, Covid-19, that holds a person’s immune system and causes damage to the lungs. In this case, a ventilator is used to push air, with an increased level of oxygen into the lungs.
In India, where the Covid-19 cases are comparatively less to other countries, healthcare systems are worried about a shortage of ventilators as the number of cases rises exponentially. This has led leading ventilator manufacturers in the country to double their production capacity to fight with the situation. Even, some are working in collaboration with automakers like Maruti, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, among others to create huge capacities. Here are some top leading domestic manufacturers of ventilators that provide ventilators at a low cost.
Skanray Technologies
Location: Mysore
Skanray Technologies is the leading ventilator manufacturer in India, which builds Medical Devices with international quality standards. The company has a wide range of healthcare technologies and products and has Global presence through own brand and OEM partnerships with world’s leading brands. With its state-of-the-art manufacturing and R&D facilities spread across two continents and a large portfolio of medical devices, Skanray offers Total Healthcare Solutions to hospitals or healthcare centers by bringing in the best of design and technology from around the world. The company designs and manufactures its products across its plants in India and Europe, and assures that the customer gets pertinent technology upgrades, service support throughout the life of the product. Currently, Skanray Technologies is contributing its efforts in the fight against Covid-19, and has created a consortium with Bharat Electronics (BEL), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and Mahindra and Mahindra group to ramp up production from its usual 2,000 units a month to the current capacity of 5,000 units a month, and 30,000 units every month by end of May.
AgVa Healthcare
Location: New Delhi
AgVa Healthcare is a developer of critical care equipment at a low cost. Its one such innovation includes Ventilator which is at least 10 times cheaper than any other state of the art. AgVa’s ventilator lineup is extensive and offers a solution for home care, ICU & transport ventilators. Over the last 1 year, the company has gained almost 12% of the entire new ventilator market share in India. It is now in the process of venturing into other developing and developed markets while expanding the presence and portfolio in the existing markets. As the country is facing a Pandemic, AgVa is helping to curb the surging demand of ventilators in the country. To do so, the company is working with Maruti to scale up production from 400 units/ month to 4,000 units/ month in April and plans to extend to 10,000 units/ month by May.
Air Liquide Medical Systems
Location: Chennai
Air Liquide Medical Systems develops and manufactures medical devices, including ventilators, patient interfaces, equipment for medical gases, emergency medical transport, and blood gas analyser. The company was created in 2009 from Taema (France), Markos Mefar (Italy) and Electrocare Systems & Services (India). Air Liquide Medical Systems S.A. (formerly Taema) was a department of Air Liquide in 1975 and became a subsidiary in 1989. Initially, it started developing and manufacturing equipment designed to distribute and supply medical gases in hospitals, before unfolding its way to equipment for respiratory medicine. Air Liquide Medical Systems S.p.A. (formerly Markos Mefar) is the result of the merger between Markos and Mefar, two Italian firms that were respectively bought out in 1996 and 2000.
AVI Healthcare
Location: Mumbai
AVI Healthcare is a medical devices company which was established in 2009, with the vision of delivering quality healthcare in India at affordable costs. The company has been at the forefront in implementing quality control systems like ISO 13485:2016 and procuring international quality standards like CE. The company has been regularly executing World Bank Projects in Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Gujarat, West Bengal, and various other states of India. AVI Healthcare has also installed its equipment throughout the length and breadth of the subcontinent by these World bank assisted State Health Systems Development Projects. These World bank assisted orders and distinguished private institutions/Government entities have further motivated the company’s vision to become a globally renowned organization and continue providing its customers with world-class equipment.
Life Line Biz
Location: Ahmedabad
Life Line Biz Pvt. Ltd. is a leading Importer, Distributor, Supplier of Medical Equipments. The company offers a large range of Medical equipment, refurbished equipment, ge carestation ventilator, drager evita xl ventilator, drager evita 2 dura ventilator, drager babylog 8000+ ventilator, bird avs 3 ventilator, Respironics esprit ventilator, Respironics bipap-cpap, nellcor/masimo pulse oximeter, bellavista 1000 ventilator, lifepak 20e, lifepak 15, lifepak 1000. Life Line Biz’s state of the art factory, latest calibration equipment’s and cutting edge technology of ventilator and patient monitor brings a revolution in the Indian market. Life Line Biz is the first company in India to bring high end, Adult, Paediatric and Neonatal – Turbine Driven Ventilator.
Medion Healthcare
Location: Thane
With the presence of over 30 years in the Indian market, Medion Healthcare is a manufacturer and supplier of high quality and critical medical equipment. Formerly known as Meditronics Sales & Services Pvt. Ltd., Medion Healthcare was established in the year 1996 as a trading arm of India’s largest manufacturer of Medical X-ray Systems, C-arm Image Intensifiers and Lithotripters. The company gradually rose to become a manufacturer and exporter of Anesthesia Delivery Equipments, Air compressors & Ambulances. At present, Medion Healthcare largely focuses on the field of Operating Room, Critical Care, Life Support, Imaging and Mobile Healthcare.
There is no ending of the list, several other manufacturers are also working in the time of global crisis, and contributing their efforts to defeat the Coronavirus pandemic. As all efforts from these dedicated manufacturers and government bodies are putting forward extensively, we believe the days are no longer when India will free from this deadly virus.