05/04/2020
Dr. Magdy Sabaa:
Producing the first industrial respirator with local components at the University of Tanta ... to combat corona ..
The device competes with the importer at the lowest cost .. With the same efficiency and specifications ..
Dr. Mahmoud Zaki:
The success of a research team of scientists from the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering in designing and manufacturing the device
Dr. Magdy Sabaa, President of Tanta University, announced the success of a research team at Tanta University in manufacturing the first Egyptian device for industrial respiration from local components to support university hospitals in the face of the emerging Corona virus.
Dr. Magdy Sabaa explained that the university developed a plan to manufacture the device locally to confront the Corona virus and its risks, as the virus causes respiratory infections that affect the lungs, so patients with it suffer from severe shortness of breath and the virus causes damage to the lungs, which causes fluid to leak from small blood vessels in The lungs gather in the air sacs of the lungs or alveoli, hindering the transportation of oxygen from the air to the blood and making it difficult for the lungs to perform their function. Therefore, you must support the disease. You have an artificial respirator to provide ventilation mechanics by transferring the breathing air to the lungs mm. A breathing provides a patient who suffers from an inability to breathe sufficiently or is physically unable to breathe as the ventilator is an artificial path by gently pushing air into the lungs, indicating that the Corona virus is an acute competitive distress syndrome that is characterized by a lack of oxygen in the blood In a product, the body's natural respiratory system fails, which requires mechanical ventilation.
This is the President of Tanta University, that in light of the high price of the imported device and the need for hospitals to many approaches that face any potential cases of increasing infections with the virus, the university tended to produce it with local components, explaining that the research team includes 8 university scientists from the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering headed by Dr. Mahmoud Zaki Dean of the College of Engineering.
Dr. Mahmoud Zaki, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, said that the device consists of turbines to compress the air and supply oxygen and air mixer / oxygen and filters, and the sensors were encountered from tubes and valves as the turbines push the air through the flow valve by controlling the pressure based on the patient's transactions, as well as monitoring the state of the air leak. In oxygen tanks, as well as that done in the ventilator through a built-in system for accurate adaptation of flow and pressure based on patient-specific treatments.
This is the Dean of Tanta Engineering, a research team was formed at the First Engineering College to maintain the number of 5 respirators in university hospitals, where problems and malfunctions were examined with the necessary spare parts and the team was able to successfully maintain 4 devices and restart them in university hospitals, explaining that they are European-made devices and the price of the device One of them is not less than 400 thousand pounds.
After the success of the research team, the maintenance mission of the imported artificial respirators is assigned to us, and the university president, Dr. Magdy Saba developed a plan to design and produce the ventilator with the same international specifications and efficiency but with local components, and it was a great challenge for the research team, where the best electrical circuits and components were studied, explaining that the production of this device goes through several stages, the first of which is the production of device software and we have completed this stage and then a stage The value study of the components of the device to choose the components and the alternatives of the imported components. This stage has also been completed, and the third stage comes in which the device is installed and we are currently in this stage that we finish within days and then the test phase and finally the stage of the process comes Lt's for the device.
And Dr. Mahmoud Zaki, that the completion of the project will be completed within a few days, to meet the needs of hospitals in the face of Corona, where 10% of the virus needs industrial respirators, until the cost of producing the new industrial spoiler equals one quarter of the price of the imported device with the same efficiency.
# Media Center - Tanta University.
