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Singapore has started churning out ventilators to meet the global shortage as Covid-19 cases worldwide surged past the 13 million mark.
Home-grown medical device company Advanced MedTech, which is wholly owned by Singapore’s Temasek, has received emergency approval from the Health Sciences Authority for its Alpha ventilator.
Even before emergency approval was received yesterday, it had already received inquiries and advance orders from countries like India and Indonesia.
It expects to ramp up production to about 200 a month before the end of the year, and eventually to 1,000 a month if it also receives non-emergency approval, which will allow the device to be used outside of an emergency.
Mr Abel Ang, the company’s group chief executive, is confident the ventilator will meet international standards. The company has already filed for approval with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States.
He said the Alpha ventilator is the world’s first telehealth ventilator and ideally suited for treating patients with infectious diseases.
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