Trump gift of ventilators welcome, India needs each machine coming its way

On a conservative basis a city like Mumbai would need 4,000 ventilators in a week or fortnight. While there are no official estimates, the city may not have more than 1,000 ICU beds for Covid-19

As India's coronavirus cases overtake China's, the scramble to create healthcare infrastructure grows. Experts have said that the country is likely to witness peak cases in July and August. Do we have enough intensive care beds or ventilators? 

Let's do a simple calculation - We are adding about 500 cases per day in the major hotspots. Mumbai is adding close to 1,000 cases per day. 

Around 20 per cent of these would need hospitalisation, assuming 80 per cent are asymptomatic or have mild sysmptoms. That is around 100 people in  requiring hospitalisation every day in a major city. Now, lets