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UPF 3D printers working at full capacity to produce protective visors due to the lack of medical supplies required to fight COVID-19

Faced with the lack of medical supplies to hospitals across the state, UPF’s four 3D printers have been set up to make protective visors to help medical personnel fight COVID-19. The initiative involves students of the bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, PDI and PAS of Poblenou campus.

Across the state, many individuals and centres with 3D printers have made them available to print material free of charge. At the University, the initiative was conceived last Friday by Joel Romero, a second year student on the bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, who contacted Antoni Ivorra, professor with the Department of Information and Communication Technologies and coordinator of the initiative. At first, the idea of printing ventilators was considered but in the end, it was decided that it would be more productive to print simpler material, opting for protective visors.

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