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JYOTI CNC has developed and launched Indigeneous Ventilator within 10 days only !

Propelling technology, prospering life

The world is facing a massive challenge in the form of COVID-19 virus. Due to the high human to human transfer rate the virus has alread spread in all countries around the world with over a million cases and total deaths crossing 60,000. In India government has been an early starter in proactively preparing to face the pandemic challenge.

In a meeting of state government, the officials of Government of Gujarat had expressed the availability of Ventilator in limited quantities as one of the major upcoming bottleneck if the spread of COVID-19 disease caused by corona virus crosses a threshold. Currently, Gujarat State has 1061 ventilators available. Looking to the way ventilators were outnumbered by number of COVID-19 patients in developing economies like Italy and New York, availability of limited quantity of ventilators was a major worry for the government. The fact, that creating a precision instrument like ventilator required high technical know-how, many parts imported from foreign countries and long production cycle, makes it a tough task to ramp up the number of ventilators in state. 

It took the courage and vision of a person from a third tyre city of India, to take up this tough challenge. Parakramsinh Jadeja founded Jyoti CNC limited is known for it's insight and revolutionary intelligent contribution to the country's machine tool industry. It was a tough call for Jadeja who is the Chairman and Managing Director of the company that employs around 2000 people. Without in-depth knowledge of the medical industry, Jadeja led Jyoti CNC in the race against time to help the nation.

The first prototype of Ventilator that is suitable to treat a Covid-19 patient was made ready in working in 10 days flat. Leading from the front Parakramsinh and his team of 150 professionals worked round the clock during this 10 days. While sizeable contribution came from the wide industry know-how and experience of Rajendrasinh Parmar (RHP Medical), there were other 26 allied companies that worked relentlessly to complete the task they were assigned. Jyoti's production units in Rajkot charted out the designs and manufactured critical components.

The 100% indigenous ventilator was given the name Dhaman-1, as 'dhaman' translates to a blower that pumps air. After thorough testing of the ventilator at Gujarat government's Electronics and Quality Development Center laboratory, the machine was tested on live patient at Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. The indigenous ventilator was later formally launched by the Chief Minister of state Mr. Vijay Rupani. 

With an objective to contribute towards helping the government working in this testing times of crisis - Jyoti CNC will donate the first 1000 'Made in India' ventilators to the government. The company will bear all the manufacturing cost and production overheads for this 1000 pieces. This first 1000 devices would br manufactured by the company in a span of 10 days. Jyoti CNC has indeed set an example of sorts for the first time in the history of this country.