{"id":1922,"date":"2020-04-23T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:58:25","slug":"federal-science-agency-gets-approval-for-mexican-made-ventilator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/federal-science-agency-gets-approval-for-mexican-made-ventilator\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal science agency gets approval for Mexican-made ventilator."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MEXICO NEWS DAILY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governments across the globe are scrambling to provide ventilators for critically ill coronavirus patients, and Mexico is no different. The country may need up to 20,000, experts say, and currently only has 3,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the government\u2019s announcement that it has approved the production of ventilators developed by the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) may be welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President L\u00f3pez Obrador said a French aerospace company based in Quer\u00e9taro will produce Conacyt\u2019s device, and make around 500 a week. The first batch is set to be delivered by the first or second week of May, which health officials suspect will be when the virus begins to peak.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ventilators\u2019 approval came from the Federal Commission for Protection Against Sanitary Risk (Cofepris).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, five other low-cost ventilator production projects are on hold pending Cofepris approval. Three Mexican universities, Volkswagen and the non-profit Reesistencia Team M\u00e9xico have plans to make the device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter is a working group of 25 multi-disciplinary engineers out of Sonora looking to use equipment like 3D printers to produce ventilators, mimicking a similar project in Spain. The name is derived from their goal of helping people \u201cresist\u201d the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a recent press conference, the president said a second ventilator prototype developed by Conacyt is in the final phase of testing and could be in production by the third week of May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, while ventilators are sorely needed, having them doesn\u2019t necessarily mean survival for those who are gravely ill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new study by the Journal of American Medical Association<\/em> found that, in New York, 88% of coronavirus patients on ventilators it tracked died. That\u2019s a sobering rate of morbidity and much higher than the 50% survival rate many doctors had hoped for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor those who have a severe enough course to require hospitalization through the emergency department it is a sad number,\u201d said Karina W. Davidson, a professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health, who authored the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff Mexico News Daily. (2020). Federal science agency gets approval for Mexican-made ventilator. M\u00e9xico. Mexico News Daily.<\/em> Recuperado de <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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