Approximate 42,000 ventilators for 1.3bn people a worry, a number experts said will be inadequate in case there is a surge in Covid-19 infections that, in approximately 5% of the cases. In India, there is one ventilator for every 32,500 people. People living in rural areas are completely dependent on government hospitals and clinics, with the ventilator-patient ratio at 1:89,000.
The state of India that has the highest ventilators
| No. | State/UT | Ventilators |
| 1 | UP | 2975 |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 3205 |
| 3 | Karnataka | 2550 |
| 4 | West Bengal | 1962 |
| 5 | Kerala | 1932 |
| 6 | Delhi | 2100 |
| 7 | Punjab | 1765 |
| 8 | MP | 1906 |
| 9 | Haryana | 1785 |
| 10 | Tamil Nadu | 1758 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 1750 |
| 12 | Uttarakhand | 1398 |
| 13 | Odisha | 1354 |
| 14 | Andhra Pradesh | 1306 |
| 15 | Rajasthan | 1314 |
| 16 | Chandigarh | 1257 |
| 17 | Puducherry | 987 |
| 18 | Jharkhand | 955 |
| 19 | Meghalaya | 953 |
| 20 | Sikkim | 878 |
| 21 | Tripura | 865 |
| 22 | Arunachal Pradesh | 847 |
| 23 | Chhattisgarh | 667 |
| 24 | Assam | 658 |
| 25 | Lakshadweep | 654 |
| 26 | Daman & Diu | 582 |
| 27 | Bihar | 558 |
| 28 | Manipur | 515 |
| 29 | Himachal Pradesh | 503 |
| 30 | A & N Island | 435 |
| 31 | Jammu & Kashmir | 390 |
| 32 | D&N Haveli | 384 |
| 33 | Mizoram | 300 |
| 34 | Nagaland | 265 |
| 35 | Goa | 252 |
*All data count as approximate