Posted on 04/02/2020 9:02:47 PM PDT by Cronos
Originally created by a robot scientist and a neurosurgeon to help India's poor, a toaster-sized ventilator is offering hope in the country's fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and demand for it is booming.
The virus, at its most lethal, attacks the lungs, making ventilators - which pump air into the lungs - critical for hospitals around the world as they are swamped with COVID-19 cases
With the toll rising in India, where a nationwide lockdown is in force, production of AgVa's portable ventilator has shot up from 500 a month to 20,000.
"There was no way we could have foreseen something as big as this," said neurosurgeon Deepak Agrawal, who co-developed the device with robot scientist Diwakar Vaish.
Priced at approximately $2,000, the AgVa ventilator is a fraction of the price of conventional ventilators, which go for more than $10,000. ... The makers say the AgVa - which weighs just 3.5 kilos (7.7 pounds) - will help move less critical patients back to their homes as their machine is easy to transport and install, and does not need much power.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
5, 4, 3....countdown to when this turns into a discussion on the state of their toilets.
I asked a friend of mine who works at the V.A. in Virginia as a Physician’s Assistant if they could use BiPAP machines and She said, “They can and they are”.
All the meat-based scientists will be out of work soon, I suppose.
This is innovative. You never see the ChiComs coming up with innovations like this. They just steal ideas from others.
The Indian people are a powerful global resource.
That’s the difference between a communist system where the government does the thinking for you and a capitalist one - even a poor one like India. The Indians need to be frugal and make do with what they have — necessity is the mother of invention
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