When he retired from his lab at the University of Manitoba in 2001, Dr. Magdy Younes took little more than a set of electronic files, a few books and two bulky, sharp-cornered metal boxes fitted with flick switches and knobs.
“They wanted me to join a committee evaluating ventilator designs, and I said, ‘oh I have one,’” said Younes, the former head of respiratory medicine at the University of Manitoba. It’s just one of a handful of ventilator projects unfolding across the country — each battling in its own way to navigate the challenges of buckling global supply chains, overwhelming demand and export controls that have all but cut off access to crucial parts.
The company is pushing to produce 1,500 of the machines by May alone, and intends to make a machine out of “95 per cent” Canadian content, Grenier said. Demand for oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients has peaked so severely in the United Kingdom that one London hospital nearly ran out last week.
Looks like it came with the old planes blackface bought from Australia
The peak that’s yet to come?
It wouldn't be Canada without the expected bureaucratic stupidity and bumbling incompetence we've all come to know and hate. Sadly there is not much point in asking King Turdeau questions. He never answers them, only moistly sprays his word salad nonsense unto his subjects...
they haven't been in operation for years, what will they do when it is hooked up to a patient and fails 45 mins in?
With all the warning and advance notifications of the virus it is a shame Canada a World leader will have to use outdated and antique equipment. When the government is more concerned about perception and it own World goals instead of the Canadian people this is the result.