Moroccan Engineers Develop World’s Smallest COVID-19 Ventilator

It is an insufflator that could help patients with covid-19 and people suffering from respiratory diseases. Abdelali Laamarti, coordinator of the team of engineers who developed this ventilator, said that "it was a race against time since the beginning of the lockdown in order to design and develop an artificial respirator capable of saving human lives during this particular period".

Baptized by its designers INSHIRAH (INSuflator for Home Intelligent Remotely Automated Health), "the device works by using a mask and pressing the valve, without requiring the intervention of a third party and is distinguished by the ease of its use, its lightness, its portability, its low cost and its availability for all Moroccans," reports the MAP.

What makes this invention even more ingenious is the fact that "the device has been designed to be used at home, with the possibility for medical staff to control it remotely". This will, in these times of mass contamination, "decongest hospitals and allow patients who have not yet reached an advanced stage to be treated from home".

Another facility provided by this device is that it is "controlled by a mobile phone application that monitors and controls the mechanical movements thanks to pressure and flow sensors via Bluetooth technology". Its weight does not exceed 700 grams; which makes it "the lightest portable ventilator in the world, and which can also be used as a supplementary device to ventilators in hospitals".