The Federal Polytechnic,Ilaro,Ogun State , Nigeria , has produced a respirator utilizing locally generated materials.
Olusegun Aluko ,the rector of Federal Polytechnic,Ilaro,Ogun State, revealed it took the team seven days to manufacture a respirator.
This was made known while speaking on Television Continental, Thursday . He said, as the world request for respirator increases amidst this COVID-19 pandemic , he saddled a team of professionals including doctors and engineers in the institution with the responsibility to find a way out to the scarcity of respirator in the Nigeria.
He enumerated that after days of hard work, the team was able to design a functional ventilator with less than one million naira.
He stated , “ It took us one week through trial and error . Now there is no trail again ; all the information that we used are documented . All we just need to do now is to feed them into the system , start mass producing and coupling them .
“ If we can produce this one within one week, with all the research , that means in a matter of two days we should be able to produce one . ”
The rector, furthermore added that the institution has the ability to train other members of staff of institutions across the country. Which, he believed , would help to expand the scope of mass production of respirators in the country.

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