Two African firms to Begin Producing NASA-Designed COVID-19 Ventilator
According to newsfeed from NASA, In late April, NASA announced the
development of Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally (VITAL), a
ventilator prototype designed specifically to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since then, 28 manufacturers around the world have been licensed to make the device.
So far so good Brazil is the only one already preparing to begin production. Now that they currently ranked second highest in numbers of death recorded due to COVID 19 after USA which record the highest.
Anvisa, Brazil's counterpart to the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration, announced approval of this effort during an Aug.
24 press conference with the licensee, a joint partnership between Russer, a
medical device manufacturer, and CIMATEC (Manufacturing and Technology
Integrated Campus), a nonprofit research and development institution.
So with regards to all these partnerships and Interventions we might witness a new wave of revolutions or breakthrough in the supply of cost efficient medical devices in our markets across Africa. And new opportunities arising in the Biomedical Engineering technology services. Such as repairs and maintenance. And of course increasing licensed manufacturer of other medical devices.
