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Busch supplies vacuum system for emergency hospital in Madrid

| By Mary Bailey

In order to be able to supply a suitable vacuum system in the shortest possible time to the emergency hospital that is currently set up in the Madrid Convention Centre, Busch Vacuum Systems in Spain has provided a solution:  the company offered up a vacuum system in its own show room used for training purposes, which was quickly dismantled and immediately delivered to Madrid. The vacuum system consists of three R5 rotary-vane vacuum pumps, mounted on a vacuum vessel and upstream bacteria filters. Since it was already ready for operation and connection, it could be used immediately.

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Busch Spain has rapidly supplied a vacuum system to an emergency hospital set up in Madrid

Currently, Spain has the second-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 infected people after the USA.  In an effort to meet hospital demands, within 48 hours, the Spanish army, firefighters and hundreds of volunteers set up and equipped an emergency hospital at the Madrid Exhibition Centre.  The emergency hospital can accommodate 6,000 patients. Now five hundred of them can receive intensive medical treatment and ventilation.