Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care
Purchase more heart-lung machines to fight Covid-19 coronavirus
Closed
37 signatures
What the petition asks
Ministers need to drastically ramp up the purchase of ventilators and Heart-Lung machines and ECMO beds. The machines are an essential part of treating those with severe cases of COVID-19, when a sticky mucus fills patients' lungs preventing them from breathing.
We want the Government to:
1) Publish how many ventilators, heart-lung machines & ECMO beds they will purchase!
2) Publish when they will purchase them.
3) Publish the date those machines will enter service.
4) Actually follow through and buy the machines.
Basically: we want them to accept the BMA's position that we don't have enough and put the required funding behind an order for those machines to rectify the short-fall as soon as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdDl2g7F4tU
1) Publish how many ventilators, heart-lung machines & ECMO beds they will purchase!
2) Publish when they will purchase them.
3) Publish the date those machines will enter service.
4) Actually follow through and buy the machines.
Basically: we want them to accept the BMA's position that we don't have enough and put the required funding behind an order for those machines to rectify the short-fall as soon as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdDl2g7F4tU
Timeline
| 24 Mar 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 24 Sep 2020 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
37
Status
Closed
Department
Department of Health and Social Care
Opened
24 Mar 2020
Closed
24 Sep 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.