Britain now has access to 12,000 ventilators: health minister

 

FILE PHOTO: Gauges to regulate oxygen on a ventilator are seen at a lab run by the University Health Network in Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain now has access to 12,000 ventilators after it bought more from existing providers and its manufacturers are stepping up further production, Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Monday.

 

“We’ve made serious progress on that, there’s now over 12,000 that we’ve managed to get to,” he told BBC Radio. “We started with 5,000 so we’ve been buying ventilators and we’ve also been engaged with companies who are going to turn their production over to ventilators.”

 

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I was reading some interesting info from https://hackaday.com/2020/03/12/ultimate-medical-hackathon-how-fast-can-we-design-and-deploy-an-open-source-ventilator/

 

Apparently the O2 used in the oxy-acetylene welding is the same as medical O2, except for packaging. Should not become a problem. Then you do need other parts for the DIY ventilator. 

A lot of F1 teams are based in Eng and have turned their engineering Dept's over to the ventilator production effort ..

JCB , R R , Jaguar and BAE are some of the well known companies also enlisted .. 

Edited March 23, 20206 yr by Justgrazing
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