In two weeks’ time the National Ventilator Project will distribute the first batch of non-invasive ventilators to hospitals in the country. This much cheaper technology is built locally, stimulating the local economy and creating jobs.
The number of deaths also escalated, with Sunday marking the deadliest day when 175 were lives lost. More than 3 300 people in South Africa have died so far. Based on the experience in the United Kingdom, Italy and other places where Covid-19 has hit hard, “we have realised that, actually, what’s needed is an intermediate therapy; the so-called non-invasive ventilation”, Jonas said.
Jonas said these machines, at R10 000 a unit, are much cheaper than the current ventilators and because the machines are being manufactured locally, hundreds of jobs will be created. Once the rollout begins in less than two weeks, Jonas said that the department of health’s hospital readiness team will identify the hospitals where these devices will be sent, based on where there is a need, the hotspots and in the provinces hardest hit by the virus.
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