breathe medical AG

Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) lack a sufficient supply of ventilators leading to millions of preventable deaths and poor patient outcomes each year. To tackle this problem, we develop a low-cost ventilator for emergency use, transport, and short-term critical care. For the successful introduction into the market and a sustainable use in low-resource settings (LRS), we take a holistic, user-centered approach to design a ventilator that is intuitive to use, robust, and easy to maintain, even in harsh environments. Our main customers are medical facilities, NGOs, and governments in LMICs that want to increase their health care capacities. Eventually, we would like to co-produce the ventilator in a LMIC to promote knowledge exchange, strengthen local economies, and build capacity.