Mahindra Co. ready ventilator prototype in 3 days, planing to price it at Rs 7500

The Coronavirus pandemic has crippled the economy of many countries and India too is facing similar issues. The need of the hour are ventilators and in a bid to fight against the deadly coronavirus the teams of Mahindra situated at the company’s Igatpuri and Mumbai plants have responded to the call made by the group chairman, Anand Mahindra, by coming up with the first ventilator prototype within just 48 hours after the group chairman put the message out on twitter.

Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday said it “hopes to have a prototype of an automated version of bag valve mask ventilator, commonly known as Ambu bag, in three days for approval to assist in combating the coronavirus pandemic. It is also working with two large PSUs along with an existing manufacturer of high spec ventilators to help them simplify design and scale up capacity. At other end we are working on an automated version of the Bag Valve Mask ventilator (commonly known as Ambu bag). We hope to have a Proto ready in 3 days for approval. Once proven this design will be made available to all for manufacturing.”

Along with this, Mahindra & Mahindra Further said that “it expects to come up with a sophisticated ventilator priced at just Rs 7,500, which otherwise costs up to Rs 10 lakh, as it seeks to assist in combating coronavirus pandemic. To this, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra applauded the efforts of Kandivali and Igatpuri, manufacturing teams who confined themselves to the factories and produced these prototype designs in 48 hours, without catching sleep”.

On Sunday, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra had said to “help in the response to the unprecedented coronavirus threat, Mahindra Group will immediately begin work on how its manufacturing facilities can make ventilators”.

Goenka said, “We at Mahindra are overwhelmed with pouring in of support from individuals and companies for our effort to make available ventilators.” Mahindra had also offered the facilities of the group’s hospitality arm.