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Indian doctor, techie make app-controlled pocket ventilator
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Thursday, 14 September, 2017
AIIMS doctor Deepak Agrawal, in collaboration with Delhi-based robotics researcher Diwakar Vaish, has developed a pocket-sized ventilator that can be controlled with an Android app. The ventilator can run on natural air flow without a dedicated oxygen supply. It would be priced around ₹15,000, whereas, other portable ventilators cost above ₹2.5 lakhs in the market.