The world’s cheapest and smallest ventilator has been developed by a young robotics engineer from Delhi in association with a neurosurgeon at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS). It looks like a solid heavy cell phone and can be easily kept in your pocket. This world’s smallest ventilator is all set to revolutionize healthcare. Developing countries like India faces a vast shortage of ventilator beds required to support critically-ill patients who cannot breathe on their own.
According to standards, at least 10% of all hospital should have ventilators, but even Delhi, which has the best health infrastructure in India, has 200 ventilators for over 10,000 beds. Working of portable ventilator It consists of a small battery-operated pump pushes in the atmospheric air in synchronization to the natural breathing rhythm. The sensor in the device estimates the air pressure in…
