This Is O2matic – A Reliable, Portable Unit Of Measurement To Chop-Chop Hit Oxygen Locally Using Only Tap Water, No Electricity

More than 300 participants, manufacture mentors, organizers as well as volunteers came together at the 2nd CAMTech INDIA Jugaad-a-thon to co-create as well as prepare affordable wellness technologies that address reproductive, maternal, newborn as well as tyke wellness (RMNCH) inward India. 

Organized inward partnership amongst Lattice Innovations as well as hosted yesteryear GE Healthcare Bharat at the John F. Welch Technology Center inward Bengaluru, the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Mass General Hospital's Center for Global wellness called on innovators from across India, Africa as well as the U.S.

The Jugaad-a-thon (derived from the Hindi give-and-take "jugaad" pregnant an innovative create or work-around), invites about of the world's brightest minds to collaborate over a 48-hour menstruum as well as prepare solutions to identified clinical challenges through an opened upwards excogitation platform.

GE sponsored 3 challenges as well as awarded prizes to 3 teams for Nitrobooster, which developed a cost-effective as well as steady provide of nitrous oxide for surgeries; O2-Matic, a low-cost method for oxygen production to address unpredictable availability of medical gases inward express resources settings; as well as Aawaazz, an affordable device that screens for hearing terms inward infants inward under-served communities.

O2Matic (Source: ET)

Team O2Matic (Source: Bangloremirror)

About O2Matic

A squad of 12 members came out amongst an regard of making O2matic, implying that the pocket-size kit tin hit at in i lawsuit O2 (Oxygen) for emergencies, for nigh a amount hour. The squad comprised of two amazing women, i from America, who was at her best inward her chemical scientific discipline as well as the other a cool singer, cutting as well as plumbing equipment the carte du jour boards, amongst her deft fingers, inspite of having about affliction as well as tiredness, working throughout the night. They created an ‘O2matic’ prototype.

Non-availability of oxygen (due to unreliable supply, difficulty inward shipping of cylinders due to lack of roads or absence of skilled resources to operate the cyclinders) is an imminent threat to many lives inward rural hospitals/health tending centers. So, O2-Matic came upwards amongst an regard of a durable as well as portable kit that tin hit oxygen anytime. The kit has an outer reuseable canister, a lid amongst an oxygen outlet that volition survive mounted on the canister as well as a replaceable cartridge, which volition concur the tabular array salt chemical compound as well as the catalyst required for the chemic reaction. There is besides a mensuration jounce amongst a provision to add together H2O into the cartridge as well as the whole set-up shall survive inward a portable kit bag. 

During an emergency, a user tin unlock the lid from the canister, add together tap H2O into the cartridge inward the H2O provision, driblet the cartridge into the canister as well as lock the lid again.

When the lid is completely locked, it activates the cartridge as well as thus that all the compounds mix as well as react inward the shut canister to hit oxygen, which shall survive administered to the patient inward need. The whole move current takes solely few seconds.

O2MAtic could survive used inward the next areas;

During emergency situations inward rural areas (PHC, caretakers who catch solid yesteryear house, etc.)

• In areas affected yesteryear natural calamities where transportation, access as well as electricity is a challenge

• As emergency kit other than the O2 cylinders inward ambulances

• As emergency kit inward hospitals as well as communities

• As emergency kit inward locations where pressurized oxygen is prohibited.

• In mines for treatment.

After the initial design, the squad is at nowadays working on a portable kit agency image that is intuitive inward pattern as well as tin fifty-fifty survive used yesteryear an unskilled someone to generate oxygen using a modular apparatus. (Source: ET)

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