The first of thousands of South African-designed ventilators rolled off a Cape Town assembly line on Friday, responding to requests from hospitals ...
FILE PHOTO: A health worker walks between beds at a temporary field hospital set up by Medecins Sans Frontieres during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, July 21, 2020.
"Today the first batch of completed ventilators are coming off the assembly line, part of an initial order of 10,000 units," Ebrahim Patel, the trade and industry minister, said during a COVID-19 conference.Based on the clinical experience of COVID-19 epicentres such as China, Britain and the United States, the government decided that the production of non-invasive Continuous Positive Airway Pressure devices would have the greatest chance of saving lives in South Africa, Patel said.
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