Global ventilator shortage hits 1 million devices - 5,000 Allied Medical ventilators available immediately

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

With the ongoing global Covid-19 crisis, survival of patients infected with the Covid-19 virus depends on the availability of medical ventilators. Global demand for ventilators has just reached 1 million machines that will be required to satisfy the basic requirement of affected countries (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/09/chinese-ventilators-global-demand-177078). Due to this peak demand, existing manufacturing capacity is fully booked months in advance and various new entrants are attempting to enter the market with untested, unproven, and dangerous devices that put patients' lives at risk. There is an immediate, urgent need for high quality, fully certified medical equipment to minimize the death rate of Covid-19 patients.

Global Ventilators Direct ("GVD") is supplying ventilators from leading global medical device manufacturers, such as Medtronic (https://www.medtronic.com), Allied Medical (https://www.alliedmed.co.in) and Draeger (https://www.draeger.com) to ensure that we can provide the maximum number of ventilators possible to customers globally. At the moment, we are in discussions with various countries about supporting them through the crisis, with demand, urgency and desperation increasing on an hourly basis. We understand that this is a critical time and some governments are still struggling more than others to acquire ventilators, while public pressure is building up constantly. But rest assured, ventilators are available, and we aim to deliver them within the timeframe that is required.