UK company seemingly won’t help SA with ventilators marketed as simple solution for coronavirus

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The company said its immediate focus was the UK market, where it is one of two companies contracted to produce 30 000 ventilators.

UK-based company Penlon is seemingly reluctant to help a group of South African businessmen, doctors and engineers reproduce a potentially life-saving mechanical ventilator it first produced nearly 40 years ago, because it was “marketing” the machines.

As the number of South Africans to have contracted the novel coronavirus continues to rise sharply, the number of people who may soon need ventilators, also increases. “We are all trying our best to give everyone a fair chance. It’s also unfair to now try and jump the queue. Africa is, unfortunately, at the back of the line right now,” Fourie said.

“We are appealing to your esteemed company on humanitarian grounds to urgently make all your production drawings and quality documents available to us so that we can fast track this development.” Corbett said the product was nearly 40 years old, and any patents would long have expired. UK patents, similar to the US, are valid for a period of 20 years.

The Guardian this week reported that Penlon’s Nuffield 200 was one of two devices manufactured in the UK, together with a portable ventilator made by the Smiths Group, that would be produced in large quantities to meet the demand for British healthcare systems.

 

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MbawoLive Sounds like a scam anyway

Think South Africa can come up with something similar or better and start looking after ourselves. Did it before.

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We told WMC and the West/Colonizers to F$K off - now we want their help 🤔

Akhongxaki will have our own

Why should they? There are plenty of open source ventilator designs on the internet

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