Afghan girls make ventilators out of car parts

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   This is good news, both for the help it is giving a poor country, but also this is being done by a team of girls (in a very male dominated society).  The country has been hard hit by pilgrims returning from Iran with the virus (the true numbers are sure to be vastly under-reported.

 "BBC" wrote:

Afghanistan's all-girl robotics team has turned it focus on coronavirus patients - by making affordable ventilators out of car parts.
The teenagers made headlines in 2017 when they won a special award at an international competition in the US. 
Now they are racing against time to deliver ventilators by the end of May, at a fraction of the market price.
Afghanistan, reeling from years of war, has a maximum of just 400 ventilators for a population of 38.9 million. 
So far, more than 7,650 coronavirus cases and 178 deaths have been confirmed, but the authorities fear the situation could get worse and overwhelm an already fragile healthcare system. 
Link to BBC report