MANILA, Philippines — Three groups in the Philippines were able to develop locally-made ventilators, Secretary chief Fortunato de la Pea of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said on Monday during the regular briefing of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Two of the groups are from the Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP) and Don Bosco Technical College, Dela Pea announced. There’s another group that he did not identify.
The ventilators devised by the TIP group have already passed a third-party certification and will now need to be tested in hospitals. The same goes for the ventilators developed by the Don Bosco group.
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