Pak Engineers Cheaper Ventilator Wins MIT Prize
Boston, Pakistani students and an Indian student have prepared such cheaper ventilator and they have won the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Slown prize. The experts have awarded the prize of $20,000 to this invention and they declared it the best and very effective invention among all other inventions, which were included in the competition.
This invention has given the title of ‘Umbulizer’ and it won the first prize in MIT Sling Healthcare Innovation prize competition. The students of the colleges and universities of Boston present their inventions in the competition every year. The graduates of Boston University, Shaheer Paracha and Sanjay Gupta of Horward Medical School have done this invention. MIT and other students of Boston were included in the preparation of Umbulizer and they are Moeez Imam, Abdul Rehman Akaas, Wasay Anwar, Rohan Jadeja and Farzan Khan. Pak Engineers Cheaper Ventilator Wins MIT Prize.
Cheaper Ventilator
This equipment is just like desktop printer, which runs with battery and it is easily portable. When this equipment is started and operator joins the pipe with the patient, it adds reasonable amount of air in the lungs. The ordinary ventilator has the cost of 15000 dollars but this equipment, Umbulizer has the cost of only 2000 dollars.
Shaheer Paracha told the participants that a complete ventilator works 15 different tasks, which are rarely needed. They made Umbulizer simple and it is made able to carry out four important tasks, which are badly needed and they are used to save the lives.
Shaheer also told that Umbulizer will be tried in Pakistan first and ventilator is not available in each hospital because it is very costly. The Umbulizer team told that medical trial of the ventilator was proved very successful. When they talked with the Pakistani doctors in the hospitals, they stressed over the cheap, simple, small and remote monitored ventilator, which everyone can use it. They prepared such ventilator, which works perfectly.
The Umbulizer team told that the prize money of $20,000 will be spent on the medical trial of this tool. The team thinks that this tool can be sold easily in South Asia, Africa and other poor countries of the world.
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