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COVID Crisis Sparks Sustainable Health Innovation
Five newly designed oxygen ventilators are on their way to Lagos, Nigeria in April.
For all the sorrow it brings, the COVID-19 pandemic is driving innovation and one UK-based startup is ready to move forward with a medical device that’s a potential gamechanger for the developing world.
Five newly designed oxygen ventilators are on their way to Lagos, Nigeria in April after successful trials at Loughborough University’s National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine and the Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital. Another batch of the ShiVent ventilators are headed for Pune, India.
Low-cost, non-electric ventilator allows non-specialized workers to treat COVID-19 patients
A team of engineers from Loughborough University has designed and built a unique low-cost, non-electric ventilator in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ShiVent system was created to allow non-specialized workers to treat patients with coronavirus.
The team - Yusuf Bilesanmi, Ricardo Nascimento, Dr Yusuf Shittu, Gaurav Nanajkar and Pawel Nycz - designed the ventilator with four key features:
Simple to use- by the average health workers and takes only 30 minutes of training
Low-Cost- can be produced at a very small fraction of the price of the average ventilator
Non-Electric- making it suitable for hospital settings with unreliable power
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