Founder and Chairman of Metran Co., Ltd Tran Ngoc Phuc (left). (Photo: VNA) Tokyo (VNA) – Japanese medical equipment firmMetran plans to make 15,000 ventilators for Vietnam to help the country combatthe novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which is ravaging the globe, accordingto Founder and Chairman Tran Ngoc Phuc.
Metran has received orders of ventilators from manycountries, including Japan, but the company’s capacity is limited so it isworking with the world’s leading consulting firms to legally share designspecifications of its ventilators to other producers to boost productioncapacity, said Phuc, a Vietnamese – Japanese.
Metran will transfer its patent to a partner in Vietnam toproduce about 15,000 ventilators for the Vietnamese market.
According to the founder, his company is confrontingshortage of workers and components for the production and is working to fix theproblems.
Once the company resolves issues relating to insufficientsupply of components, it is capable of making 5,000 – 10,000 ventilators permonth, Phuc noted.
Metran Co., Ltd, based in Saitama, was founded by Tran NgocPhuc in 1984, 16 years after he left Vietnam to begin study in industrialchemistry in Tokai University in Japan.
The company has developed a high frequency oscillatoryventilator (HFO), named Hummingbird. Metran’s HFO would allow for diffusion ofair supply at a rate thousands of times faster than machines available then.
From a heavy “mechanical beast,” the effectiveness of whichrecognised by the US renowned medical research centre National Institutes ofHealth (NIH), the device has undergone several revisions – with the latestsporting a slimmer body and a full touch control panel.
The new machine’s efficiency ensured its widespread presencein Japan, with a reported 90 percent of Japanese hospitals and medicalfacilities being outfitted with machines made by Phuc’s company. The paediatricventilator is also present in hospitals in 12 other countries and continues toexpand its global presence./.
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