An extract from an ABC new article today. Quoted from Alan...

An extract from an ABC new article today. Quoted from Alan Finkel, Australia's chief scientist.

We have one of the world's greatest ventilator companies, with a large manufacturing plant in Sydney: ResMed. Famous for its home-use sleep apnoea machines, ResMed also produces hospital grade ventilators. One for ICU invasive ventilation and the other for less urgent non-invasive ventilation.The non-invasive ventilators provide oxygen via a mask for less critically ill patients and to patients being weaned off invasive ventilation. However, in an emergency, a non-invasive ventilator can be used at the physician's discretion for invasive ventilation of some patients.Both are approved by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration. Orders have been placed with ResMed for both — 500 invasive ventilators and 5,000 non-invasive machines, and deliveries will start soon.An extract from an ABC article today quoting Alan Finkel, Australia' chief scientist.