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The company, which has also launched a hunt for a low-cost ventilator design through a challenge, is also developing its own ventilator and hopes to be ready with a prototype within a week as part of its three-pronged approach to get into ventilator manufacturing considering the shortage during this health crisis.
“We are talking to medical equipment companies like GE and some other companies, which already have established and approved designs. If they can tell us, then we can start manufacturing based on their design in our plant,” MG Motor India President and Managing Director Rajeev Chaba said.
He further said all three companies have responded positively and that can be the fastest solution if there is a design approved by the medical body already and everything is in place.
Besides, he said, “In the last 10 days, our engineering team is busy making a prototype. I’m happy to say that we have already made the drawings and everything. We have talked to the medical experts, our prototype should be ready in the next one week. If that prototype is approved, then our own designed ventilator can be manufactured by MG in India.”
However, this approach will take some more time as it needs regulatory approvals, he added.
The company has also announced a Rs 10 lakh grant through its “challenge to youngsters and young engineers that if they want to make a low-cost design, we are going to help them”, Chaba said.
On the manufacturing of ventilators, he said MG Motor India will create infrastructure at its Halol facility and would even carve out a separate unit if need be.
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