WATCH | Local doctors and engineers build makeshift emergency ventilator using everyday items
A Krugersdorp-based doctor employed a little help from his friends to come up with an innovative design to simplify access to ventilation in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Krugersdorp-based doctor employed a little help from his friends to come up with an innovative design to simplify access to ventilation in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jano de Beer, a medical practitioner, with the expert assistance of anaesthetist Estienne Neuhoff and electronic engineers Gerry Geel and Maritz Botha, are well on their way to perfecting their ventilation device, which can augment the capacity of a conventional ventilator tenfold, and at a fraction of the cost.
De Beer estimates that a ventilator, as used in most hospitals can cost as much as $50 000 (about R950 000), while this device currently costs around R4 000 to build.
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