Under current specifications, ventilators will only be able to 'provide support to coronavirus patients for a few hours'.
Requirements set out by the U.K. government for hospital ventilators, as it seeks to address a shortage in the NHS, are not fit for treating coronavirus patients, according to a leading expert.that the minimum specification would only be capable of providing care for patients for a"few hours" rather than a day or more.
The U.K. has between 9,000 and 10,000 ventilators in operation, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said, with another 2,000 critical care beds with ventilators attached. Hancock had issued a"call to arms" last month, in a bid to drive ventilator production as well as other"critical" equipment for the NHS.
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