Abstract:
Most of the countries in the world have very ‘centralized’ healthcare networks; with sophisticated
emergency help available only in hospitals in major cities. This results in loss of life and poor access to
healthcare that is bottlenecked by long and inconvenient travel distances and their associated costs. This
problem, while prevalent for a long time, was particularly damaging during COVID 19’ as hospitals
exceeded their human resource and equipment bandwidth and smaller clinics were no help as they did not
have the necessary equipment. The purpose of this project is to produce very affordable but sophisticated
emergency breathing devices that are fit for small clinics and ambulances. This drives business from a
high volume of small healthcare facilities and makes the local healthcare system of developing countries
more secure and robust. The first product that has been developed to this end are hybrid CPAP/BiPap
machines with full functionality that are cheap in retail and fall into the budgetary range of town-scale
clinics.
