Vingroup to produce ventilators, body thermometers
Vingroup announced on April 3 that it would produce ventilators and body thermometers to serve the domestic market amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vingroup has produced body thermometers for COVID-19 at much lower cost than others available on the market (Photo courtesy of Vingroup)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vingroup announced on April 3 that it would produce ventilators and body thermometers to serve thedomestic market amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19pandemic.
Firstly, the group will provide the Ministry of Health (MoH) with 5,000 non-invasive ventilators to treatCOVID-19 patients in Vietnam.
For production, Vingroup signeda license agreement with US-based Medtronic to use their design for the PB560ventilator, and also began researching a non-invasive ventilator based on thecommunity-shared design by MIT University.
The group said the ventilators’components will be sourced externally and internally.
Vingroup Vice Chairwoman Le Thi Thu Thuy said: “Vingroup has an advantage ofhaving both the VinFast automobile factory and VinSmart electronics factory.So, we can manufacture both large and mechanical parts as well as rare, smallerparts at the same time.”
She also said they hadexcellent design engineers to transform the conceptual and 2D designs intodetailed and complete designs required by the manufacturers.
It is expected that the firstbatches of components for the non-invasive ventilator will arrive in two weeksand other batches of parts will arrive in another two weeks.
The group said with enoughcomponents, it can produce the ventilators in one day and transfer them to theMinistry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology for appraisal andquality tests before they are distributed to health facilities nationwide.
The group has successfullytested and produced body thermometers. The group said the cost of componentsfor the thermometers was 16 million VND, much lower than other body temperaturemachines on the market.
The group estimated thecomponent cost for a non-invasive ventilator at about 22 million VND and for an invasive ventilator at 160million VND.
Vingroup CEO Nguyen Viet Quang said: “We expect to supply thesedevices to the Ministry of Health at the cost of components. We won’t include the costs oftransportation, labour, production and other costs into the price.”
He added: “With the capacity ofVinFast and VinSmart, the group can produce up to 45,000 non-invasiveventilators and 10,000 invasive ventilators per month and support othermanufacturers around the world to process the equipment for the ventilators.”/.
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Vingroup has produced body thermometers for COVID-19 at much lower cost than others available on the market (Photo courtesy of Vingroup) 
