This is the situation in the hospitals in Madrid. Simply horrifying
This is so sad....made me immediately try to think of how to help.
I looked to reply to the author but couldn't work out how to so can you please pass this on.
Our love and thoughts from Australia are with you all.
In Australia Resmed, the people who make CPAP machines have approached the government and their offer of quickly converting their production lines to making ventilators has been accepted and they are working on them around the clock.
There must be many other companies who could do this in Spain.
Secondly, paraphrasing from a Sydney Morning Herald article today, a Professor Rod McClure, Dean of Medicine at the Uni of New England has just, with a team of doctors from Armidale Hospital, fast tracked a project and purchased 200 home monitors that are of ICU quality and monitor heart rate, temperature, oxygen saturation, blood pressure and breathing.
These then, from the patient's home, can transmit to a "flight deck" in the hospital where (supported by AI) doctors and nurses who can monitor each one, can pick up that a patient's condition is worsening.
Changes to blood pressure are an early warning sign of sepsis or organ damage and changes to oxygen saturation typically occur before pneumonia sets in...
Thirdly, I think that the European Airbus base manufacturing facilities that produce the in-plane emergency breathing systems for aircraft that can cover hundreds of people at a time, could surely produce the individual beds as per the first and business class seating and the systems that would provide for central monitoring and individual ventilation at each seat.
These could be set up in emergency temporary areas such as Convention centres.
They should have plenty of spare capacity now that the planes have effectively stopped flying.
That would be a solution nearer to home that the EEC can manage - if nothing else Airbus has the tubes, masks and monitoring equipment and they can engineer large scale systems that could be set up in large temporary facilities etc.
Just a thought and love to the Spanish people - we will see you as soon as we can on a Camino!
Blaster