Turkish engineers from several sectors came together to produce ventilators within a month and support the country's hospitals in their fight against the coronavirus
Ventilators are in demand everywhere as they are providing life support to critically ill Covid-19 patients, making their breathing easier and helping them fight the disease.
Under the same initiative, the group will deliver 5,000 more by the end of May, as they promised a month ago. The respirator device has emerged after a lot of hard work, with more than 120 engineers dedicated to the project, which Erdogan has followed the day by day. They succeeded in commercialising the product in 2017 with the support of TUBITAK an institute for technology, KOSGEB a union for small and medium enterprises and Bilkent University, Erdogan expressed the company’s pride that their work was able to deliver a meaningful service today.
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