‘Fake’ ventilators leave Gujarat model gasping for breath

'Even as CM Rupani promotes Rajkot-based private company’s ‘breathing apparatus’, Gujarat’s largest Covid-19 hospital urgently seeks full-fledged ventilators from Centre. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has not left his citadel in Gandhinagar and visited Ahmedabad, the worst-hit corona-affected city in the State. But Rupani did so on April 4 when he inaugurated Gujarat-made ventilators at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. Now, it is an utter embarrassment for the Gujarat government because it has been revealed that what Rupani’s friend from Rajkot donated and what was set up at Civil hospitals were not exactly ventilators...'