Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 22 May, a special charter flight of Uzbekistan Airways JSC with humanitarian cargo from Turkey arrived in Tashkent, Dunyo reported.

The plane, following the flight Istanbul-Tashkent, landed at the international airport named after Islam Karimov.

The meeting was attended by senior officials of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan and representatives of the Turkish Embassy in Tashkent.

On 22 April, a telephone conversation took place between President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

During the conversation, the heads of state supported the close cooperation carried out by the two countries in the fight against a new global threat - the spread of coronavirus infection.

The charitable assistance provided to our country by Turkey in the form of 50 mechanical ventilation devices (IVL) is another confirmation of the parties’ resolute and practical desire in this direction.

The issue of providing free-of-charge ventilation devices for the needs of Uzbekistan made in Turkey, was worked out by the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Ankara.

“A high danger associated with the pandemic continues to persist throughout the world,” said Ahsen Turan, representative of the Turkish Embassy in Uzbekistan. - Helping each other, standing side by side, in difficult times - a characteristic feature of our peoples. Turkey’s help in the form of valuable medical equipment confirms this again. Ventilators delivered to Uzbekistan will provide an opportunity to improve the work of medical staff in combating the spread of coronavirus.

The head of the main department of international relations of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey, Professor Selami Kilic, emphasized that although Turkey had not yet fully provided for its own needs for such devices, it, as a fraternal country, provided the corresponding batch of medical equipment to Uzbekistan.

“The prototype of the ventilator was developed jointly by engineers from four large Turkish companies - Arçelik, ASELSAN, Baykar Makine and Biosys,” he said. - The first 100 ventilation devices were transferred to the citywide hospital in the Bashaksehir district of Istanbul. Serial production and testing of these machines has been established at the Arçelik factory in Istanbul. At this enterprise, it is planned to produce 250 ventilation devices daily.

According to experts, Turkish ventilators are quite competitive and of high quality in comparison with many other analogues.

“Ventilators are used in cases of respiratory failure and play an important role in the treatment of patients with severe coronavirus,” said Davron Sultonov, deputy head of the main department of the Tashkent City Healthcare Association. - Due to partial or full connection to the device, it is possible to achieve a significant improvement in the condition of patients. Equipment delivered from Turkey can be used to treat patients of all ages.

A batch of ventilators will be provided to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan to combat the pandemic of the coronavirus Covid-19.