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Nation To Get 60,000 New Ventilators By June End Through PM-CARES Fund, Says JP Nadda

Swarajya StaffJun 22, 2020, 10:05 AM | Updated 10:05 AM IST
BJP President J P Nadda 

BJP President J P Nadda 


Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president J P Nadda on Sunday (21 June) said that by the end of June, nation will have around 60,000 additional new ventilators through the PM-CARES fund, reports Livemint.

This comes as a major boost for the nation's medical and healthcare infrastructure given at present the nation has about 21,000 operational ventilators. The announcement was made by Nadda at a Jam Sanvad Rally in Uttar Pradesh (UP).


The nation was now producing more than 4.5 lakh PPE kits every day compared to nil before the first national lockdown was announced, he added.

Nadda also shared that the party's workers had so far distributed as many as 19 crore food packets to the needy and vulnerable. He also underscored that the party's workers had also distributed about five crore ration kits, of which 45 lakh kits have been distributed by the party's UP alone.

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