Dhaman-3 has passed all tests, say makers

Rajkot: City-based engineering company Jyoti CNC automation Ltd claimed on Friday that their indigenous ventilator Dhaman-3 has passed all tests and parameters set by Union health ministry’s technical committee. The promoters have also claimed that the firm has also secured an order for 5,000 such ventilators from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Dhaman-3, the advanced version of the ventilator, which has just completed the testing stage is ready to hit the market. The company said that it fulfil the DGHS order in the next two and half months.
Addressing the media in Rajkot on Friday, the chairman and managing director of the company, Prakramsinh Jadeja alleged that the recent controversy surrounding their product was a deliberate attempt to malign by some parties with vested interest.
“There are some lobbies of imported ventilators who were trying to secure maximum orders during the pandemic. However, as they are now not getting orders, they started the smear campaign to malign our ‘Made in India’ product by creating the controversy for their own benefit,” asserted Jadeja.
India, which was totally dependent on imported ventilators, still has nearly 65 percent imported ventilators under use in various hospitals of the country. Jadeja further claimed that their ventilators are available at 25 percent of the price paid for imported ventilators.
The ventilator business is $8 billion globally, while India annually spent around Rs 400 crore till last year in importing these machines.
Jadeja also said that the firm will very soon send its ventilator to the US for regulatory certification of USFDA, while a subsidiary company of Jyoti CNC in Europe is pursuing for a European regulatory certificate. If these pursuits are successful, in the near future the firm can export machines to European countries, he added.
Last week, an RTI application reply revealed that Jyoti CNC had not received the recommendations of the DGHS’s technical committee till July 20 though the Union health ministry had placed orders for 5,000 ventilators from the Rajkot-based company. The fund for the purchase of the ventilators is allotted from the PM-CARES (Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation) fund.
On Friday, Jadeja refuted the allegations and said that the committee had given green signal to the firm’s latest Dhaman-3 model on August 8. “The RTI was not regarding Jyoti CNC but it was about the use of PM-CARES. The ventilator was only a part of that fund. There are other Indian companies supplying ventilators to the government and we have secured the lowest order,” Jadeja added.