<span style="color: #222222;">When the country is fighting against COVID-19, innovators like Dr Deepak Agarwal of AIIMS have developed cost effective ventilators for the patients. Speaking exclusively to AIR News, Dr Agrawal who is Professor of Neuro-Surgery in AIIMS New Delhi said, the inspiration to develop the ventilator came from the patients at AIIMS, who could not go home until a year just because they were dependent on the ventilator and the patients who need it life long.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Dr Agarwal said, he along with robotics scientist Diwakar Vaish developed the ventilator 5 years back and now the capabilities of the ventilator has been improved by incorporating a negative ion generator which inactivates the COVID-19 virus. The inactivated virus is trapped at the expiratory end by a positive charge system and protects the environment. He said, the ventilator is simple, small in size, user friendly, economical, easy to maintain and run. It is helpful for COVID-19 patients too.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Dr Agarwal said, Health Ministry has placed an order for 10 thousand ventilators which they will provide this month. He said, they can manufacture more than 20 thousand ventilators per month.</span><br />