Germany, Italy rush to buy life-saving ventilators as manufacturers warn of shortages

Germany and Italy spearheaded a national scramble for ventilators as manufacture...

ZURICH - Germany and Italy spearheaded a national scramble for ventilators as manufacturers warned on Friday that hospitals everywhere face a lack of vital equipment needed to treat coronavirus patients.

Italy may have less than a quarter of the breathing machines necessary to help patients as infections fill their lungs with fluid, Andreas Wieland, chief executive of the world’s largest ventilator maker Hamilton Medical, told Reuters. Draegerwerk also plans to boost production at its factory in the north German city of Luebeck as the worldwide death toll from coronavirus topped 4,900.“It’s unusual for a government to order medical gear directly,” a spokesman told Reuters. “Normally customers in Germany are hospitals and clinics.”

“I have been in very close contact with Germany, with France and with other member states and I am happy to report that they are willing to adapt their national measures as we requested,” Von der Leyen said on Friday.

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