Funds for the fight against Covid-19
THE VALENCIAN government is taking further steps to guarantee the availability of medical equipment in case demand increases due to further outbreaks of Covid-19.
It has made aid totalling €4 million available to manufacturing companies in the region that have adapted their activity, or do so during 2020, to produce sanitary material on a large scale. These can include medicines (including vaccines) and treatments, their intermediate products, active pharmaceutical ingredients and raw materials; sanitary products, hospital and medical equipment (including respirators, protective clothing and equipment, and diagnostic tools), and the raw materials for these.
Also included are disinfectants and their intermediate products and raw materials, as well as tools for collecting and processing data.
All products must be ready and fit for immediate usage, and be properly authorised, certified or approved, as well as complying with any other professional requirements.
The aid can be used to subsidise manufacturing of a new product or adaptation of one already being made by the company, so that it can be put on the market specifically as part of the fight against Covid-19.
Each grant can be between €100,000 and €400,000 to cover 75% of the project costs.
On Friday the regional health service took delivery of 30 of the latest generation respirators, which had been donated by electricity company Iberdrola.
A total of 300 of these Aeonmed VG70 (intrusive oxygen ventilators) have been donated by the company between all the regions in Spain to reinforce their health services against the coronavirus.
The Iberdrola group has made use of its global access to supplies to obtain essential goods and carry out other charitable actions during the Covid-19 crisis that have been worth more than €30 million.