IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) – A team of volunteers in Syria have cobbled together prototypes of a ventilator and a testing machine – homemade equipment to fight the new coronavirus if it hits the last rebel stronghold, where hospitals lie in ruins after nine years of war.
FILE PHOTO: A volunteer wearing gloves builds a prototype ventilator to help combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the rebel-held Idlib city, Syria April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
The group of 12, mainly technicians and engineers, hope to build hundreds of makeshift machines to combat the pandemic in Syria’s northwest, where an army advance made nearly 1 million people homeless this year.
“If coronavirus cases start to surface here, it will spread widely,” said Ayoub Abdul-Karim, a 20-year-old graduate who specialized in medical equipment. “We’re working on this today because there won’t be enough machines. We suffer in the hospitals from a big lack of ventilators.”
His homemade ventilator…
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