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Nigerian Engineers Invented Ventilators, others to Fight COVID-19 in 8 days

A team of engineers at the Abubakar Tafawa University (ATBU) Bauchi, has designed 4 different devices to help fight coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.

Dr. Faisal Sani Bala, an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Mechatronics and Systems Engineering, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, led a team of eight experts to invent an automatic ventilator, disinfection chambers and software engineer apps for screening and treatment of coronavirus and Lassa fever patients. The team currently has the capacity to produce 50 machines in a week.

He discloses in a report, that their automatic ventilator was invented with only local materials available in Bauchi. “We cannibalize on all office materials to construct. We are going to work in tandem with our medical school and other medical personnel within the school to do a pre-clinical and clinical trial, because this is a medical device that needs some level of certification,” he said. Dr. Bala, added that one of the advantages of an automatic ventilator is that it has a backup battery, as well as a provision for a solar panel to power the machine.

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