Like much of the rest of Europe, Balkan states face an acute shortage of protective medical equipment in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Tech enthusiasts are stepping up.

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Responding to an acute shortage of protective medical equipment, a group of tech enthusiasts, innovators and health workers joined the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in North Macedonia last week armed with dozens of 3D printers.

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Via Facebook, in a matter of days, they produced more than 500 medical visors that were distributed for free to hospitals and clinics around the country. “We needed help to quickly make enough visors, this was our main mission,” said GP Nenad Lazarov, one of the initiators of the Facebook group ‘3D Print Medical Equipment’. “People are doing this wholeheartedly.” Like the rest of Europe, in cash-strapped Balkan countries – where health services have long suffered with meagre budgets and equipment shortages – […]

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