General Motors and Ventec Life Systems will deliver new ventilators to FEMA this week as part of their joint effort to provide necessary supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, their CEOs said.
Barra said that the workers are being compensated and that there are plans to recognize them further once the pandemic is over., which was announced March 27, Ventec moved its ventilator production into GM's Kokomo, Indiana, plant. The companies received the first contract for ventilators under the Defense Production Act, which President Donald Trump invoked in March.for around $490 million to add to the national stockpile and aid in fighting the pandemic.
"We have hundreds of people here from General Motors," Kiple said."We are actively busy making progress, building ventilators right now. We have teams that will be here through the night actually making progress."Barra said safety precautions the plant is taking are based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.
"We will stay very focused on safety in the operations today, because we are so grateful for the people who are working," Barra said."This will then help us as we get back to a point where we can bring car production back online. We'll take all of these lessons learned, all of these precautions, and that, I believe, is how we will start up when we get the right approvals."
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