VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

University of Indonesia (UI) will mass produce low-cost, pneumatic system-based local transport ventilators (COVENT-20), that cleared a production test, for the CMV and CPAP modes of ventilation at the Health Facility Security Agency (BPFK), Jakarta.

As quoted by Antara, Chief of the UI Ventilator Team Dr Basari, noted in a written statement released on Friday, that in the first stage, UI has targeted to produce one thousand ventilators in a month, to be distributed among COVID-19 referral hospitals, through collaboration aimed at raising funds from various parties, under the coordination of the Association of Alumni of the UI Technical Faculty (ILUNI FTUI).

COVENT-20 will later undergo pre-clinical animal testing, at the Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute of the UI Medical School (IMERI FKUI), and clinical test at appointed hospitals, before being produced en masse with its industrial partner//Ant