Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to build 2,000 new ventilators for coronavirus patients that even the government says hospitals are unlikely to need.
A unit of Sanko Manufacturing Co.'s 'Lotus SS-1200' ventilator, is seen as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues at the factory in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Japan May 8, 2020. Picture taken May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
But even the health ministry acknowledges that hospitals, which now buy almost all their ventilators overseas, likely have enough, while industry experts say Japan’s small ventilator-makers will struggle to produce more than the few dozen a month they usually build. Japan needs to cut dependence on imports from the United States, Europe and China, said the health ministry’s Maeda.Ventilators are used to inflate the fluid-filled lungs of critically ill COVID-19 patients through a tube inserted into the windpipe, and require constant monitoring.
The Japan Society of Respiratory Care also said there are enough ventilators, barring a major coronavirus surge.Ventilator makers require technicians to ramp up production, but even with additional manpower, they still need to find components overseas amid strong international demand. It usually hand builds around 30 ventilators a year, and initially proposed to build 300. It later scaled that back to 50.
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