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These Aspiring Female Scientists in Afghanistan Designed an inexpensive Ventilator to Treat COVID-19

One prototype uses car parts and is merely $300.

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A group of teenage girls in Herat, Afghanistan is functioning hard to style a reasonable ventilator to treat COVID-19 coronavirus patients.

The Afghan Girls Robotics Team of 5 girls aged 14 to 17 — Somaya Faruqi, Dyana Wahbzadeh, Folernace Poya, Ellaham Mansori, and Nahid Rahimi — are a part of the Afghan Dreamers two-year program for high-achieving girls.

Their city has seen a spike in COVID-19 coronavirus cases as thousands of individuals fled Iran to flee a huge outbreak. quite 800 confirmed coronavirus cases are reported in Afghanistan and therefore the country of 35 million people had only 300 ventilators as of Thursday.

The Afghan Girls Robotics Team launched the project in response to Herat Governor Abdul Qayum Rahimi’s public involve ventilators (which are briefly supply worldwide), to assist treat COVID-19 coronavirus patients.

Coronavirus causes a respiratory tract infection that creates it difficult to breathe and ventilators assist patients in breathing if they can't do so on their own.

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With limited resources and lots of businesses closed during the pandemic, the team only used locally-sourced materials to create two ventilator prototypes. One is powered by the engine and battery parts of a Toyota Corolla, a standard car in Herat. The ventilator automatically operates an Ambu, a self-inflating plastic sac employed by medical professionals to assist patients breathe.

The team is developing the opposite model supported a design by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, with input from Harvard University experts, and doctors are testing it.

If the planet Health Organization and therefore the Afghan Health Ministry approves one among the team’s prototypes, they're going to be ready to mass produce it for US $300, compared to the standard monetary value of $30,000.

Officials have asked more specialists and engineers to assist the team, consistent with Wahidullah Mayar, a spokesperson for Afghanistan's Health Ministry. @Recently Active Users
 

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