A young inventor holds a developed prototype of a simple lung ventilator called Q-Vent, for infected patients facing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was created at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia April 2, 2020. Picture taken April 2, 2020. This device don't replace lung ventilation but helps ride through a certain period of waiting for the lung ventilation – which is the biggest problem in Italy. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech team have built a ventilator using readily available parts and are planning to produce hundreds of the devices to treat seriously ill coronavirus patients.
The volunteer scientists, engineers and designers of the Covid19.CZ group - who say their device costs about one fifth of the current market price - collected more than $500,000 in a 24-hour crowd-funding campaign to "help save the lives of moms, dads, grandmothers and grandfathers".
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