To help the patients with coron+, 3 types of locally made life-saving medical products so far have been passed in the clinical trial. Of these, 7 out of 11 ventilators have been reported. These are now awaiting commercial production.
BUET, Minister Hitech and MIST GT have largely contributed to manufacturing these products. In this category BMFT, Renata Limited and jointly Aamar Source and Spectrum are also credited for their contributions.
The MIST Gigatech Ventilators (Mechanical and Non-Invasive) from the Military Institute of Science and Technology, and the Oxygen Concentrator Machine and high flow Nasal Canola from Edge Foundation and Minister Hitech have passed the clinical trial with their own innovative solutions.
Oxyget a helmet from BUET’s biomedical engineering department, has also attracted a lot of attention.
Tawfiq Hasan, associate professor BUET, Lecturer Sayyidur Rahman, ICU Specialist of Bangladesh Specialized Hospital Abdullah Al Ahmed, National Institute of Neurosciences and Associate Registrar of the hospital Dr. Fouad Ghalib and university students Kauser Ahmed, Kaiser Ahmed Alman and Farhan Muhib worked closely in this team.
These initiatives have been implemented in collaboration with the Aspire to Innovate (A2I) program, the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneur Development (iDEA) project and the Bangladesh Industrial Technical Assistance Center (BITAC).
The achievements were highlighted in an exchange of views with local innovators on the online video conference platform ‘Baithak’ on Wednesday night. State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak was the chief guest at the meeting.
He said the Aspire to Innovate (A2I) program, under the “Challenge Fund”, would soon move to call on local inventors, researchers, and entrepreneurs to come up with innovative solutions to these three issues, and many life-saving medical initiatives have already been moved forward in this connection.
