An Indo-American couple develops an economical ventilator to fight covid-19

When the world is battling to make necessary arrangements to treat the covid-19 patients, an Indian-American couple has came up with a great initiative to build a ventilator at an economical cost during the troubled times. It is soon to hit the production stage and will be accessible in India and globally to assist medical specialists in managing the COVID-19 patients.

Incited by the absence of required ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic, Devesh Ranjan, a professor and partner in the esteemed Georgia Tech’s George W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and his significant other Kumuda Ranjan, a family doctor in Atlanta, built up an emergency ventilator. They were able to pull off a ventilator named Open-AirVentGT from ideation stage to model in pretty much of a mere three weeks time.

“On the off chance that if anyone take up manufacturing, it very well may be created in under USD 100. Indeed, even with a value purpose of USD 500, the manufacturer would have enough cash to ensure that they are making reasonable benefit in the market,” Professor Devesh Ranjan told PTI.

He said a ventilator of this sort, in general in the US, costs USD 10,000.

A ventilator is designed to bring control over the body’s breathing procedure when an ailment has made the lungs dysfunctional. This gives the patient time to fend off the disease and recoup. Devesh Ranjan, however, emphasised that theirs isn’t an ICU ventilator, which is progressively advanced and costs more.

This Open-AirVentGT has been developed to help mitigate acute respiratory distress syndrome, a common complication for COVID-19 patients that causes their lungs to stiffen, forcing their breathing to be assisted by ventilators, he said.