Many people have a misunderstanding that ventilators are expensive, and the main reason why many patients' families are unwilling to go to ICU is the cost of ventilators. The cost of a ventilator is actually not very high. Charge by the hour, only one day in 20 yuan, about 300 to 400 yuan. However, many family members still think it is expensive, and they also have the idea that medical equipment is expensive.
This is about medical devices. The research and development cycle of medical devices is very long, and the research and development expenses are not small expenses. It takes a long time to complete a series of processes, such as product testing and clinical experiments, and the product registration cycle is also long, with high human and material costs. Medical devices refer to instruments, equipment, appliances, in-vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrations, materials and other similar or related items directly or indirectly used in human body. Utility is mainly obtained by physical means, not pharmacology, immunology or metabolism, or these ways are all involved but only play an auxiliary role.
Another reason is the obvious shortage of medical device professionals in China. For example, the design and research and development of some high-end products are basically foreign technologies, but the domestic market share in this field is very small, mainly because of the lack of senior talents in this field in China. Moreover, the current instruments are basically put in hospitals by foreign-funded enterprises, and hospitals will not pay for them. What is expensive is those consumables and reagents.