Founder and Chairman of Metran Co., Ltd Tran Ngoc Phuc (left). (Photo: VNA)Tokyo (VNA) – Japanese medical equipment firm
Metran plans to make 15,000 ventilators for Vietnam to help the country combat
the novel disease () which is ravaging the globe, according
to Founder and Chairman Tran Ngoc Phuc.
Metran has received orders of ventilators from many
countries, including Japan, but the company’s capacity is limited so it is
working with the world’s leading consulting firms to legally share design
specifications of its ventilators to other producers to boost production
capacity, said Phuc, a Vietnamese – Japanese.
Metran will transfer its patent to a partner in Vietnam to
produce about 15,000 ventilators for the Vietnamese market.
According to the founder, his company is confronting
shortage of workers and components for the production and is working to fix the
problems.
Once the company resolves issues relating to insufficient
supply of components, it is capable of making 5,000 – 10,000 s per
month, Phuc noted.
Co., Ltd, based in Saitama, was founded by Tran Ngoc
Phuc in 1984, 16 years after he left Vietnam to begin study in industrial
chemistry in Tokai University in Japan.
The company has developed a high frequency oscillatory
ventilator (HFO), named Hummingbird. Metran’s HFO would allow for diffusion of
air supply at a rate thousands of times faster than machines available then.
From a heavy “mechanical beast,” the effectiveness of which
recognised by the US renowned medical research centre National Institutes of
Health (NIH), the device has undergone several revisions – with the latest
sporting a slimmer body and a full touch control panel.
The new machine’s efficiency ensured its widespread presence
in Japan, with a reported 90 percent of Japanese hospitals and medical
facilities being outfitted with machines made by Phuc’s company. The paediatric
ventilator is also present in hospitals in 12 other countries and continues to
expand its global presence./.
Source: VietnamPlus
