00:00Let's turn to tonight's Get Real India story. It's a shocker from the national capital and RTI filed by my colleague Ashok Upadhyay at India Today reveals that nearly one third, listen carefully, one third of ventilators in major Delhi government hospitals are out of order.
00:17The renowned Lok Nayak hospital has the biggest shortfall with over 70 ventilators non-functional. The government insists the ventilators are working. What's the reality? And if this is happening in our national capital, what will happen in smaller towns? Take a look at Get Real India.
00:47An RTI filed by India Today with leading Delhi government hospitals has revealed alarming gaps in critical health care infrastructure.
00:59The data provided shows that nearly one in three ventilators is currently non-functional across major hospitals, including the Maulana Azad Medical College and the Lok Nayak Hospital.
01:11According to the Right to Information response that covers two 97 ventilators installed across MAMC, Lok Nayak, Dindayal Upadhyay, Lal Badu Shastri and Sushrita Trauma Centres, 92 of them are non-functional. That is 31% of the total.
01:31Non-functional ventilators at Delhi government hospitals out of these 70, more than 70 are at Lok Nayak Hospital itself, including those in anesthesia and child care departments.
01:45A ray of hope is certainly visible in hospitals such as Dindayal Upadhyay, where 25 out of 25 emergency ventilators are in working state, while in Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, only one out of 13 ventilators is non-functional.
02:04A particularly concerning finding is the number of ventilators provided under PMKs during the pandemic which are non-functional.
02:12At least 41 of these are non-operational. Some wards have entire sets of PMKs ventilators out of service.
02:21For instance, in Ward 32 of Lok Nayak Hospital, none of the 20 ventilators are working and in Ward 31, none of the eight are functional.
02:31The Aam Admi Party, which is in power till February, has pinned the blame on the BJP government.
02:36The Delhi government disputed the RTI response.
03:04The total 74 of ventilators are in our LNGP.
03:08The ventilators are working on our LNGP.
03:11The ventilators are working on our LNGP.
03:14The RTI is working on our LNGP.
03:16The RTI is working on how I tell you about the RTI.
03:21But in our hospitals, when you told me, I checked,
03:27So are ventilators functional or not?
03:44The reply to the RTI has put a question mark on the Delhi government's healthcare facilities.
03:48With Ashok Kumar Upadhyay, Dolly Chingakam and Amit Vardwaj, Bureau Report, India Today.
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