Dublin-based Medtronic shares ventilator design to help in Covid-19 fight

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar praised the Dublin-based company’s efforts.

Mon, 30 Mar, 2020 - 23:53

Press Association

A medical technology company is sharing its ventilator design to help global efforts in manufacturing the desperately-needed breathing apparatus amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Medtronic said it had already boosted production of its Puritan Bennett 980 ventilators, but wanted to do more.

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