Stephen Hawking’s ventilator has been donated to the Royal Papworth Hospital in the English city of Cambridge in the hope that it will “help in the fight against Covid-19”, says a Press Association report.
The physicist, who suffered from motor neurone disease, died in 2018.
“After passed away, we returned all the medical equipment he used that belonged to the NHS but there were some items which he bought for himself,” his daughter Lucy Hawking told the PA.
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“We are now passing them to the NHS in the hope they will help.”
The UK is understood to currently have about 10,000 ventilators.The Health Secretary Matt Hancock had earlier estimated that the country needs 18,000.
