Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti from Bangladesh invented a low-cost device to make breathing easier for pneumonia patients using discarded shampoo bottles and some plastic tubing.





Pneumonia is a leading cause of death for infants and is seen in children below 5 years. The infection makes it difficult for the patient to breathe. For treatment, it requires expensive equipment like ventilators, which not every hospital can afford. Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti from Bangladesh invented a low-cost device to make breathing easier for pneumonia patients using discarded shampoo bottles and some plastic tubing. Using an oxygen supply and shampoo bottle filled with water, he built a bubble-CPAP ventilator.


The bubble-CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) ventilators channel the infant’s exhalations through a tube, which has one of its ends immersed in water. The exhaled air bubbles up from the liquid cause fluctuations in the air pressure of the tube. The rapid pressure changes are fed back to the child’s lungs, stabilizing the exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen.

Dr Chisti hopes one day it will reduce child pneumonia deaths from nearly a million a year to zero. Kudos to Dr Chisti for the low-cost solution which only costs INR 90 ($1.5) to make that could save life of infants worldwide.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/meet-the-doctor-who-turned-discarded-shampoo-bottle-to-life-saving-device-for-children-with-pneumonia/

Good innovation.

They will never allow such in Nigeria as u have not settled the approving bodies with egunje

OK great

Wow

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