Pakistani Ventilator Quality World Class and Price will be low

Pakistani Ventilator Quality World Class and Price will be low

Pakistani Ventilator Quality World Class and Price will be low

According to the World Health Organization, the number of corona patients in Pakistan could reach millions within the next few weeks if precautions are not taken. Doctors in all major cities of Pakistan have already said that the number of Corona patients has increased due to the easing of 

lockdown. Doctors have warned that if the number of corona patients in Pakistan continues 

to rise rapidly, the country's medical system will not be able to bear the burden. He says 

that doctors, hospital beds and medical facilities in Pakistan are very inadequate. When 

Ventilator in the country

Covid 19 patients are more numerous, they will also have more people who need intensive 

care. The medical equipment that Pakistanis will need to save the lives of such patients 

includes ventilators. There were just over 2,000 ventilators in the country's public and 

private hospitals, according to figures from Pakistan's National Disaster Management 

Authority. Pakistan plans to import another 3,000 ventilators in the wake of the Corona 

epidemic. However, there are currently two difficulties in importing ventilators from 

abroad. Ventilators are also in great demand in developed countries, so their production 

and delivery are slow. Already a ventilator used to reach Pakistan for more than Rs 3.5 

million.

Pakistan make own ventilator

 The most appropriate solution in this situation was for Pakistan to make its own 

ventilator. This has never happened before today, but it has happened now. Local engineers 

have developed a few samples of ventilators that are being tested. According to Javed 

Saleem Qureshi, chairman of the Pakistan Engineering Council, “Last month, when he started 

trying to help the country's medical sector in this difficult time, he received more than 

40 samples and applications for ventilator. A few of them were selected, of which two 

ventilators have so far been approved for clinical trials by the drug regulator DRAP. The 

ventilators being tested by the Engineering Council, DRAP and medical experts include a 

ventilator developed by Dr. Riaz-ud-Din and his colleagues. The ventilator has been 

successfully passed through two phases of initial testing by experts, while a third phase 

will be held earlier this week in which the ventilator will undergo an endurance test to 

see how many hours it will run continuously. The next step will be clinical trials. Dr. 

Riaz-ud-Din is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the 

NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi and is also the Director of the 

Hepatics, Human Robotics and Condition Monitoring Laboratory at the University.The 

ventilator was developed in the same laboratory. According to Dr. Riaz-ud-Din that the 

ventilator developed by him is world class and is equipped with all the methods that are

present in any imported ventilator. These are called modes in technical language. All 

modes can be used.

Same quality any imported ventilator

It is of the same quality as any imported ventilator but will cost less. 

It can be used in the intensive care unit for patients of any age or weight. University 

Vice-Chancellor Surosh Hashmat Lodhi said that the ventilator developed by his colleagues 

is working on seven modes while the requirement at present is only six modes.A ventilator 

is basically an artificial respiratory system that helps people with respiratory illnesses 

or other ailments to breathe. It is used in two basic ways, invasive and non-invasive. In 

the invasive procedure, a tube is delivered to the patient's lungs, which is connected to 

the ventilator by a budding circuit. The non-invasive procedure involves applying a 

breathing mask to the patient's face to help them breathe. The ventilator developed by Dr. 

Riaz-ud-Din and his colleagues Ali Jamshed, Mohammad Ahmed and Obaid Zafar can be used in 

both these types of patients and can be operated in both pressure control or volume

control modes. Covid 19 which is a respiratory disease and for which there is no cure yet, 

more critically ill patients can be placed on a ventilator to keep them alive as long as 

their immune system is free of the virus. In this way the patient's life can be saved. 

Pakistan always imports ventilators or other such electro-medical devices. 

Good quality ventilator

Under normal circumstances, importing a good quality ventilator costs Rs 30-35 lakh.However, the cost of their ventilator will be eight to ten times less. He said that since the ventilator is 

a life-saving device, the quality of the parts used in it cannot be compromised. In the 

current situation, when the demand and price of ventilators in the global market has 

increased manifold, the price of ventilators manufactured by NED University will be

The ventilator design

further reduced. The ventilator design is such that it can be used even after corona 

condition According to Dr. Riaz-ud-Din, the initial design and design process was 

difficult and long, but he worked day and night to make it in less than a month, while the 

next step will be easier. Its production time can be big reduced and we can produce it on 

a large scale in less time by assigning a task to a specific industry. University Vice-

Chancellor Surosh Hashmat Lodhi said experts from the Pakistan Engineering Council were 

examining it, after which the ventilator would be available for clinical trials. It will 

be duly licensed after these trials,and then it will be avialable at the industrial level 

for mass production He said the number of ventilators that can be manufactured in a month

will depend on the capacity of the industry. By the time Dr. Riaz-ud-Din and his team 

designed the ventilator, it was been locked down, meaning most industries were closed. 

Therefore, initially he had difficulty in obtaining spare parts.However, he said that the 

Pakistan Engineering Council was also cooperating with him and assured that "you can 

prepare a concept, later the parts can be called from close friends countries to ensure 

procurement."And can be made locally in Pakistan.

Ventilator during the coronavirus situation

The efforts of Dr. Riaz and other emerging engineers like him show that Pakistan has the potential to manufacture such devices locally. we change the mindset that whenever we need something and it is not locally available that ,it will be imported we can do it. He hopes that his efforts to 

develop a ventilator during the Coronavirus situation will help change this thinking in 

the future.

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