Positivo Tecnologia facing the challenges arising from the new coronavirus | Know more
In view of the international lack of lung ventilators due to high demand worldwide caused by the pandemic, the Brazilian industry gathered to meet the national need. Our teams in Brazil, China and Taiwan mobilized themselves in a task force to save lives. They all endeavored to increase the production capacity of pulmonary ventilators of the company Magnamed in Brazil, a project which also had the collaboration of Suzano, Klabin, Flex, Fiat Chrysler, Embraer, and White Martins. Pulmonary ventilators are used in intensive care units for patients with severe symptoms of Covid-19. We were responsible for looking for suppliers in Asia, qualifying components, developing the electronic board, as well as negotiating terms and prices. We had the opportunity to facilitate the access to foreign motherboard manufacturers – a key component of the operation of pulmonary ventilators. We also worked to get the additional pieces, such as valves and transducers, by finding alternatives to the original suppliers which were out of stock. The project aimed to deliver 6,500 lung ventilators to the Ministry of Health in record time.
See some news articles on the subject:
• Positivo Tecnologia joins other companies to produce lung ventilators (Jornal Nacional - Rede Globo– the main TV news on the open Brazilian channels)
• Government and companies take war action to increase respirator production (CNN Brasil)
• Ministry of Health acquires 6,500 respirators manufactured in Brazil (Ministry of Health website)
• Companies come together to manufacture lung ventilators (BandNews TV)
• Positivo Tecnologia donates 60 oxygen cylinders to public hospitals in Amazonas State, Brazil (Globo TV)
Positivo Tecnologia joined the “United for Vaccine” amovement to support the project's goal of immunizing all Brazilians against Covid-19.
We facilitated the barriers of the vaccination process, such as the difficulty of municipal health departments in recording data due to insufficient IT infrastructure.
We donated Positivo computers to the São Vicente Hospital. Founded in Curitiba city in 1939, the hospital increased the number of ICU (Intensive Care Unit) beds in its branch located in the district where Positivo Tecnologia plant and headquarters are based. The computers being used in the ICU to monitor patient data and computerize the administrative processes.
We have joined efforts with society to minimize the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in Amazonas State, Brazil. In solidarity with patients and family members with severe symptoms, we donated 60 oxygen cylinders to public health institutions in Manaus Metropolitan Area. Three hospitals were benefited: “Beneficiente Português”, “Universitário Getúlio Vargas”, and “General Hospital of Manacapuru”.
Each cylinder has a capacity of 50 liters of oxygen.
Free access to distance learning platforms to enable e-learning of Portuguese and mathematics during the suspension of face-to-face classes.
Donation of notebooks to families from underserved communities. It was afforded by the Positivo sales during theMothers and Fathers’ campaigns in Brazil.
We prioritize the fulfillment of repair requests for computer equipment in health institutions. Our technicians went to the forefront of combating the new coronavirus in order to ensure that computers, cell phones and tablets from health institutions function properly during the pandemic. Professionals are also committed to meeting requests from corporate customers regarding the maintenance of technology devices. In addition, we lend products as replacements when customers find it difficult to deliver repaired or exchanged equipment due to restrictions on social circulation.
We extended the warranty period of our products and provided technical assistance to health institutions. Thus, we could contribute to avoid the non-essential movement of customers during the recommendation of social isolation in case they need services from authorized stores for the maintenance of computers and cell phones within the warranty period.
We made contracts flexible for companies to rent notebooks during the recommendation of social distance. Our unit of computer equipment rental, Positivo as a Service, understood the temporary need and made the minimum rental time flexible. Previously, the minimum contract period was for 36 months. During the pandemic, the period was reduced to three months. It also granted a three-month grace period for companies that chose contracts starting at 36 months. It was a way to contribute to enable more companies to maintain normality of business, without compromising their financial cash due to the need to purchase computers for momentary use during the pandemic.
Supporting the restructuring of Hilab, a company which performs digital tests to identify reactant antibodies to the new coronavirus. The collaboration made it possible to increase production capacity to 20 million tests per month.
We are aware of the challenges we are all facing to overcome the consequences of Covid-19. By implementing these initiatives, we also want to inspire new responsibilities and join forces to minimize the impacts of the new coronavirus, in addition to strengthening us as people, companies and society.
