In Afghanistan, a cheap ventilator is pursued to be designed
The Afghan Girls Robotics Team is pursuing to build a low-cost medical device for artificial ventilation of the lungs from used car parts to help the country’s health authorities in providing emergency medical care to patients infected with coronavirus, online publication afghanistantoday.ru reports. If young innovators succeed in the project and can get government approval for a ventilator prototype, then, according to them, the device would cost only 300 US dollars, while its average price in the world market around 30,000 US dollars. “The team works with local healthcare professionals, as well as with experts from Harvard University,” Roya Mahboob, female chief executive who founded the tech team and raises funds to empower these five girls, said, Young robotics are part of a large group of upper-grade students from the city of Herat who have long been more accomplished than average teenagers and are named the Afghan Dreamers.
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