One hundred made-in-Saskatchewan ventilators will soon be available to support the needs of the province’s residents.

It’s because of collaboration between the University of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Health Authority, and RMD Engineering Incorporated.
RMD is a Saskatoon-based company whose subsidiary, One Health Medical Technologies, recently received COVID-19 Medical Device Authorization from Health Canada for an in-house designed, developed and manufactured ventilator.

RMD Engineering Group of Companies President Jim Boire says, “When COVID hit, my daughter, a Royal University Hospital ICU nurse, raised awareness of the potential impact on the healthcare system” He says, knowing that his company had the skillset, capability, and capacity in-house, they chose to do something rather than nothing and created an emergency use ventilator. The company is expected to have the first 20 ventilators ready for delivery by December 7.

The approval paves the way for One Health Medical Technologies to sell their ventilator to the Saskatchewan Health Authority, and subsequently to the Canadian healthcare market. The Saskatchewan Government has given the SHA approval to purchase 100 EUV-SK1 ventilators for patients who need them, adding to the ventilators already earmarked for its COVID-19 response.

There are currently about 650 ventilators available in Saskatchewan’s health system.

Contract details are still being finalized.