Turkey provides 50 ventilators to Uzbekistan

AKIPRESS.COM - The Uzbekistan Airways plane airlifted the humanitarian aid provided by the Government of Turkey to Uzbekistan on May 21.
The humanitarian aid included 50 artificial pulmonary ventilation devices produced in Turkey.
The representative of the Ministry of Health of Turkey, Prof. Selami Kilic said Turkey has not met yet the needs in such ventilators domestically, but as a fraternal country shared the ventilators with Uzbekistan.
The prototype of the ventilator was developed by engineers of 4 big companies - Arçelik, ASELSAN, Baykar Makine and Biosys, he said. The fist 100 ventilators were handed over to the hospital in Istanbul. The mass production of the ventilators was launched at the Arçelik plant in Istanbul. The plant is supposed to produce 250 ventilators a day.
The first batch of the ventilators will be handed over to the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan for COVID-19 fight.