https://www.thequint.com/news/india/covid-19-second-wave-peak-rti-reveals-government-had-13000-ventilators-unused

During the devastating second wave of COVID-19, hundreds of lives could have been saved had the health infrastructure been in place in India. Demand for ventilator beds skyrocketed across the country and multiple media houses reported on the lack of ICU or ventilators beds in several states.

But was there an actual shortage in the supply of ventilators?

The Quint accessed an RTI response received on 8 July by Nilesh G Prabhu, a businessman, from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHF), which reveals that close to 13,000 (12,973) ventilators procured by the Centre were not distributed to the states.