Over 1,000 UCL-Venturas sent to India and Nepal

UCL-Venturas being packaged up for transport to India - UCL has sent a total of 1,160 breathing aids to India and 130 to Nepal to support the countries' fight against a Covid-19 surge. The UCL-Ventura CPAP breathing aid was first sent to India in April as part of a UK Government shipment of 600 devices including ventilators and oxygen concentrators, to be delivered to hospitals in the worst hit parts of the country. Since then, holistic supply partner G-TEM has packaged and transported hundreds of devices from their warehouse in Gloucestershire, often within just 24 hours, to be flown to Delhi and Nepal. Professor Rebecca Shipley (UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering) said: "The UCL-Ventura team developed the breathing aid to help those in the most need, and I'm so pleased we are able to include it in emergency aid shipments to ensure hospitals in India and Nepal have access to it. "I'm hugely grateful to our logistics partner G-TEM for arranging shipments at short notice. We are committed to continuing to support the global Covid-19 response and working with our partners around the world to do this." Cases of Covid-19 are falling in India, but the country still has over one million current cases as of today (8 June), and has had nearly 29 million in total. Nepal has also experienced a recent surge in cases, and the 130 devices shipped there are being distributed to hospitals around the country.