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Family-run engineering company in Wales develop new ventilator in just THREE days to treat coronavirus patients and are manufacturing 100 a day to help battle pandemic
- Covid Emergency Ventilator was devised with help from a senior NHS consultant
- Engineers CR Clarke usually design plastic fabrication equipment for industry
- They were approached by Dr Rhys Thomas to help tackle the lack of ventilators
- It took just three days to build the device on a small industrial park in Ammanford
Dr Thomas, a consultant anaesthtatist at Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen, devised the machine based on advice from Italian doctors fighting Covid-19.
He said : 'Although it won't replace an ICU ventilator, the majority of patients won't need intensive care if they are treated with this ventilator first, releasing ICU ventilators for more serious Covid-19 cases and other general medical cases.'
'The machine has other benefits in that it will clean the room of viral particles and only supply purified air to the patient. The patient can self-care as specialist nurses are not required releasing them for other duties.'