With the pandemic beginning to reach latin America, countries like Colombia, Chile, and Mexico are figuring out ways to have more ventilators as they plan for the Coronavirus disease. Their governments want to be prepared after watching countries such as Spain and Italy have ventilator shortages due to the massive rise in cases. These shortages have forced the healthcare providers in these countries to decide who should be able to use a ventilator. This decision is based on who is more likely to survive the virus, which deprives older generations of life.
Ventilators cost up to 25 thousand per unit and last for seven to ten years. With the global shortage of ventilator units and parts, Colombian engineers, physicians and entrepreneurs have teamed up together to create cheaper ventilators based on their existing resources. These ventilators go for a fraction of the cost of the high end ones. These workers have become essential in determining the future of their country and dedicate all their time to building these machines. Furthermore, they have been testing them on animals to ensure proper use. They hope to start testing on humans soon since they are running out of time until the Coronavirus cases increase in Latin America. The next steps are for the ventilators to pass standard regulations in order to be used for the pandemic.
Yes people world wide are suffering from the lack of ventilators, no one expected to a virus to break out that effects lung function. So in todays time they wont give anyone the vents that dont require it or dont seem fit to use it. They want to preserve it so they can give it to the more critical patients. This is a real problem if this virus spreads will have a serious problem on our hands this is why we should take social distancing very serious .
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