San Francisco: Global wearable brand Fitbit has announced that it will be shifting supply chain resources to make emergency ventilators designed to treat Coronavirus patients.
- In a conversation with CNBC, James Park, CEO Fitbit, said that the ventilators will be used to help treat COVID-19 patients and help bolster supply of medical devices.
- Park said the company will be submitting its technology to the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) in coming days.
According to him, a team has started working on the ventilators after consulting physicans from Massachusetts General Brigham and Oregon Health And Science University (OHSU), among other places.
"There was a lot of concern about the shortage of ventilators and we realized we had expertise already around the supply chain," Park said to CNBC.
- Park aims for the ventilators to be the most advanced emergency user ventilator that's still available at a lower price point.
- Presently, many organisations have contributed manufacturing resources to make ventilators like GM, Ford, Tesla and more.
