Tell your senators: Don't let repair restrictions keep hospitals from fixing lifesaving medical equipment

Say you’re working in a hospital. If a key piece of medical equipment breaks down -- perhaps one of the ventilators that are so vital during this pandemic — you’ll want your technicians to be able to fix it right away.

Too often, though, medical technicians can’t even access the service manual they need to repair essential medical equipment because they’re blocked by restrictions set up by the manufacturer.

Lives are at stake: Join us in calling on the U.S. Senate to pass emergency legislation to give medical repair technicians the right to repair lifesaving machines.

Last year, our network partner U.S. PIRG Education Fund surveyed more than 200 medical repair professionals and found that nearly half of them had been denied access to the ”critical repair information, parts or service keys” they need to get broken machines up and running.

This is simply not acceptable — and it could put patients' lives at risk.

That’s why we need the Senate to pass the Critical Medical Infrastructure Right-to-Repair Act, emergency legislation that would give qualified repair professionals access to the service information and tools they need to fix medical devices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tell your senators: Don’t let repair restrictions cost lives. Pass the Critical Medical Infrastructure Right-to-Repair Act.