PARIS: Manufacturers are on a mission to produce desperately needed medical ventilators for the coronavirus pandemic, even if it means converting assembly lines now making auto parts.
Draeger, a German medical tech giant, says it has doubled the number of ventilators as well, while Loewenstein has a government order for 6,500 over the coming three months.STAFFING SHORTAGES World leaders have turned to industrial groups that have the know-how and capacity to help hospitals.US President Donald Trump tweeted a"green light" to Ford, General Motors and Tesla to help boost ventilator production.
"There is enormous demand" for help, the company's boss Jos Burger told AFP, noting that the technology can be used to print valves for the ventilators. "For the past few days, people the world over have said we need to print parts for ventilators and masks," Lamotte noted.