An online lifeline in Portugal for old ventilators amid coronavirus crisis

As hospitals struggle to cope with a shortage of life-saving ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, a group of volunteers from Portugal launched on Tuesday evening a unique platform hoping to bring old, unused medical equipment back to life.On the online platform Vent2Life, Portuguese hospitals can create free accounts and report malfunctioning equipment stored at their facilities."It is ready to connect hospitals and health centres with technicians and engineers to repair ventilators," the