Illustration of a simple ventilation device

Strengthening the Metrology Infrastructure to Support Medical Testing Equipment

Between 2020 and 2022, PTB’s International Cooperation group supported a project of the Inter-American Metrology System, or SIM (for Sistema Interamericana de Metrologia in Spanish), aimed at improving the basic metrology infrastructure for medical testing equipment. This project was a direct response to the scarcity of breathing apparatus for COVID-19 patients in many Latin American…