A view shows old equipment covered with dust at the disused Burevisnyk state-run military plant, which is considered by local authorities as the domestic producer of ventilators amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kiev, Ukraine March 26, 2020. Picture taken March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine is dusting off Soviet-era ventilator designs that lay forgotten in a mothballed military factory for years in a bid to ramp up domestic production of equipment that could help in the fight against the coronavirus.
In response to an urgent appeal by hospitals to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for ventilators, some of the country's wealthiest men chipped in to buy machines from abroad.
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