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COVID 19: Manufacture of ventilators and other medical equipment

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Here in the UK, there has been an overwhelming response to the Government’s request for ventilators with over 3,000 organisations and individuals responding to the call.


This concerted effort to mobilise the required number of ventilators, including but not limited to, ramping up production at existing ventilator manufacturers, sourcing alternative models and developing new, easy to manufacture models is rapidly gathering pace with the very latest position reported in today’s FT.


Currently, the NHS has access to 8,000 ventilators but it’s anticipated that some 30,000 units will be required in the coming weeks.


This then has been our national experience, but how are other nation states coping?

How are different countries addressing the supply of ventilators and other essential medical equipment? What's been the international experience? 


May this global crisis inspire us all to reach out and discover how our shared experience and understanding can benefit all our communities.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts and any experiences you may have on this?
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    How about updating this ...

    1) The requirement for 30,000 ventilators was mitigated by other action (Lockdown and Improved treatment). They now have enough ventilators.

    2) The additional ventilators obtained were obtained by increasing the manufacturing capacity of existing suppliers.

    3) Dysons order was never an order, but a statement of intent.

    4) The idea that it would be possible for a company that has not been involved in this sort of thing before, to design a ventilator and get it approved in short order, and for it to be produced in quantities of ~10,000 within a period of months ... was always a non-starter! This shows a total failure of everybody involved to appreciate the complexity of even the simplest engineered products.

    5) The knee-jerk reaction of the media, which seems to think that any identified problem can be solved by mobilising a public campaeign. Despite the unpopularity of this, somethings need experience, brains and time ... and cannot be made short-time by parallel enthusiasm. (Checkout Gestation)
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    How about updating this ...

    1) The requirement for 30,000 ventilators was mitigated by other action (Lockdown and Improved treatment). They now have enough ventilators.

    2) The additional ventilators obtained were obtained by increasing the manufacturing capacity of existing suppliers.

    3) Dysons order was never an order, but a statement of intent.

    4) The idea that it would be possible for a company that has not been involved in this sort of thing before, to design a ventilator and get it approved in short order, and for it to be produced in quantities of ~10,000 within a period of months ... was always a non-starter! This shows a total failure of everybody involved to appreciate the complexity of even the simplest engineered products.

    5) The knee-jerk reaction of the media, which seems to think that any identified problem can be solved by mobilising a public campaeign. Despite the unpopularity of this, somethings need experience, brains and time ... and cannot be made short-time by parallel enthusiasm. (Checkout Gestation)
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