Vingroup has produced body thermometers for at much lower cost than others available on the market (Photo courtesy of Vingroup)Hanoi (VNA) – 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.
Firstly, the group will provide the Ministry of Health (MoH) with 5,000 non-invasive ventilators to treat
COVID-19 patients in Vietnam.
For production, Vingroup signed
a license agreement with US-based Medtronic to use their design for the PB560
ventilator, and also began researching a non-invasive ventilator based on the
community-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 of
having both the VinFast automobile factory and VinSmart electronics factory.
So, we can manufacture both large and mechanical parts as well as rare, smaller
parts at the same time.”
She also said they had
excellent design engineers to transform the conceptual and 2D designs into
detailed and complete designs required by the manufacturers.
It is expected that the first
batches of components for the non-invasive ventilator will arrive in two weeks
and other batches of parts will arrive in another two weeks.
The group said with enough
components, it can produce the ventilators in one day and transfer them to the
Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology for appraisal and
quality tests before they are distributed to health facilities nationwide.
The group has successfully
tested and produced . The group said the cost of components
for the thermometers was 16 million VND, much lower than other body temperature
machines on the market.
The group estimated the
component cost for a non-invasive ventilator at about 22 million VND and for an invasive ventilator at 160
million VND.
Vingroup CEO Nguyen Viet Quang said: “We expect to supply these
devices to the Ministry of Health at the cost of components. We won’t include the costs of
transportation, labour, production and other costs into the price.”
He added: “With the capacity of
VinFast and VinSmart, the group can produce up to 45,000 non-invasive
and 10,000 invasive ventilators per month and support other
manufacturers around the world to process the equipment for the ventilators.”/.
Source: VietnamPlus
