A ventilator made by AgVa Healthcare at the research and development centre in Uttar Pradesh, India on March 25, 2020. - AFP
NEW DELHI (AFP): Originally created by a robot scientist and a neurosurgeon to help India's poor, a toaster-sized ventilator is offering hope in the country's fight against the coronavirus pandemic and demand is booming.
The virus at its most lethal attacks the lungs, making ventilators -- which pump breathable air into a patient -- critical for hospitals around the world as they are swamped with cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
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