Ventilators for Canadians, Baylis Medical and Medtronic collaborate to produce ventilators for Canadian hospitals
Ventilators for Canadians (V4C), a consortium of Canadian entrepreneurs, has partnered with Baylis Medical, a Canadian-based medical device company specializing in cardiology and spine, to manufacture ventilators for hospitals across Canada.
The Baylis V4C–560 ventilator is based on Medtronic’s Puritan BennettTM 560 ventilator design, for which the intellectual property was made publicly available by the company. Medtronic has also provided Baylis with engineering support and assisted with licensing of the Baylis V4C-560 ventilator in Canada.
On June 17, V4C announced that it had received a Health Canada licence for this device, which means the manufacturing of the first 10,000-ventilator order can begin with the first shipment shortly after that.