As the new coronavirus continues to spread across the country, major automobile companies have been lending a helping hand by donating funds and materials to the infected areas. Among them, Fujian Benz, BAIC Foton and SAIC Datsun and other car companies with commercial vehicle manufacturing capacity have also donated special production of negative pressure ambulances. So why not borrow ambulances from other areas as soon as possible, instead of working overtime to manufacture negative-pressure ambulances in times of emergency? Today, Bull Car Labs will talk to you about the special features of negative pressure ambulances.
First of all, Ox Car Lab has made a brief inventory of the car companies that donated negative pressure ambulances.
In addition to the 26 million donations, BAIC Group, together with Foton Motor, has donated 40 Tuyano negative-pressure ambulances for the disaster area, and it is expected that the first batch of vehicles will be departed from BAIC Foton's multi-purpose plant in Weifang, Shandong Province, on February 8 for five provinces, Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Henan and Hunan, which are the most serious provinces of the epidemic, as well as Beijing Municipality.
On Jan. 31, SAIC announced that it would donate 22 million yuan in cash and medical supplies with its subsidiaries to contribute to the fight against the new coronavirus epidemic. Among them, SAIC will donate 20 negative-pressure ambulances valued at 6 million yuan to be used in the prevention and control of the epidemic in Shanghai on a priority basis.
Yutong Group urgently donated 10 negative pressure ambulances to Wuhan epidemic area to support the newly-built Vulcan Mountain and Thunder Mountain hospitals.
On Jan. 28, Jiangling Motors Co. decided to donate 10 Ford Transit negative pressure custodial ambulances to Wuhan.
On January 25, Fujian Benz Conversion Plant received a notice from the relevant state departments to produce a batch of negative-pressure ambulances to reinforce the front line of the fight against the new coronavirus pneumonia. After receiving the task, Fujian Benz Converting Plant immediately organized the relevant personnel to resume work and coordinated 20 Vito vehicles for the conversion of negative pressure ambulances.
The biggest feature of the negative pressure ambulance is the "negative pressure" in its name. The so-called negative pressure, as the name suggests, is the use of technical means, so that the air pressure inside the car is lower than the external atmospheric pressure. According to the principle of free flow of gas, air can only flow from the high pressure outside the car to the car, at the same time, negative pressure ambulance can also be harmless to the air inside the car and then excluded from the car, to avoid cross-infection.
The negative-pressure ambulance works through a motor that pumps treated gas out of the vehicle to ensure that the pressure inside the vehicle remains below -20Pa at all times, and that the gas is discharged according to a designated path and does not spread unchecked.
At the same time, the negative-pressure ambulance is equipped with an isolation compartment and requires a higher degree of sealing of the vehicle to avoid cross-infection between the patient and the medical staff.
Producing a negative-pressure ambulance is different from producing a conventional model. Negative-pressure ambulances are based on the conversion of conventional light buses, and car companies have to coordinate and customize the appropriate medical equipment after manufacturing the base vehicle to convert it into an ambulance.
Because of the need to coordinate more suppliers, according to the normal scheduling plan, car companies produce a negative pressure ambulance in about 30 days, while due to the urgency of the epidemic, car companies need to compress the production time to about 10 days. Many car companies not only did not extend the holiday, but also specifically require employees to temporarily return to the factory during the Spring Festival to expedite production.
Taking Foton Tuyano as an example, the price of a new car is about 180,000 yuan for a bare car, about 40,000 yuan for the addition of negative pressure equipment, and about 80,000 yuan for isolation cabin equipment, and the combined price of a negative pressure ambulance is about 300,000 yuan.
The new coronavirus is a protracted war for us, reliable medical supplies and equipment is the necessary foundation, with these professional negative pressure ambulances, will certainly also add a security for the medical staff. If you encounter these ambulances while traveling, don't forget to make way for them.
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