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Engineering faculty and workers at La Sabana University work on a low-cost ventilator for patients with COVID-19 in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, July 6, 2020. The machine called the Heron looks like many other ventilators used to treat COVID-19 patients, but this device costs about $4,000, a fifth of the price of ventilators imported from China, and it's made in Colombia, where some hospitals have been overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia turns to emergency ventilators to treat COVID-19

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The prototype for a low-cost ventilator for patients with COVID-19 is calibrated by engineering professors from La Sabana University, Julian Echeverry, left, and Andres Ramirez, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Scientists in Colombia have developed a mechanical ventilator for COVID-19 patients that could cost as little as $2,000 and help the South American country to cope with a global shortage of these devices. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia rushes to make cheap ventilators for COVID patients

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press