Behind India's ventilator crisis: Lack of trained staff and idle units

Oxygen makers flag concern over shortage of liquid oxygen

The second wave of the pandemic has not only crippled medical infrastructure in terms of hospital beds, but has also led to bottlenecks in invasive ventilators and medical oxygen capacities and supplies.
 
On the one hand, the invasive ventilator industry is finding idle stock lying at certain hospitals for want of trained manpower to operate them as against other hospitals with critical cases that lack such equipment. On the other, the medical oxygen manufacturing industry is facing a growing challenge of liquid oxygen production. As a result, invasive ventilator manufacturers have asked state and central governments to redistribute idle