A 3D printing company in Italy has produced over 100 new vital plastic parts for hospitals’ life-saving ventilators.
The new valves were printed in 24 hours and provided to a hospital in Brescia that had run out of them.
The hospital reportedly had 250 coronavirus patients in intensive care and the valves are only designed to be used for eight hours at a time.
The 3D-printed version cost less than €1 (90p) each to produce and the prototype took three hours to design.