Project Details


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Low cost Centralized Nebulizer System to help more patient at a time


Description

With the previous nebulizer system, just a single patient can be treated immediately utilizing single chambers of oxygen. The barrels need to purchase independently, making the expense of this go up. The concentrated nebulizer gives an innovation to create oxygen all alone from regular air. This likewise causes the clinics to have a solitary machine running for the nebulizer procedure instead of taking care of a few machines. The brought together nebulizer likewise causes the patients to be dealt with together.
To solve those issues through helping patients to get proper health care services this initiative is has been taken. It is a financially savvy and proficient technique for the administration in clinics, particularly in crisis cases. The unified nebulizer can likewise keep running without power. It has a hold chamber and can give oxygen until the point when the save is purged and control supply is back on.
Already 25000 people get treated by the use of this amazing device and among them 5000 patients were treated from single unit of this device.

Project website

http://www.ilab.gov.bd/project_en/centralized-nebulizer-system/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Bangladesh

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2017

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Older persons
  • The poor
  • Remote and rural communities

Replicability

As a frugal innovation, this initiative has broader implication nationally and internationally. It could be replicated in different hospitals in Bangladesh and in other countries of the global south. The easy mechanism and cost effective nature of the initiative could create future possibilities of mass scale replication.


Sustainability

As a cost effective and innovative idea, this initiative could be replicated in every hospitals in Bangladesh. It will save the operational time and cost covering multiple patients simultaneously. So, this knowledge could be transferred to other countries with similar context. They can replicate it to manage the crisis situation with limited resources.


WSIS values promotion

The common desire and commitment reflected in WSIS Declaration of principles is to to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The low cost centralized nebulizer system is relevant to the WSIS Action Line for C7 (ICT applications: e-health) whereby ICTs can contribute to achieving universal health worldwide. This initiative can strengthen and expand ICT-based initiatives for providing medical and humanitarian assistance in disasters and emergencies. Moreover, it refers to the unique challenges faced by Bangladesh, an LDC, and how these have been overcome during the project.


Entity name

Access to Information (a2i)

Entity country—type

Bangladesh Government

Entity website

https://a2i.gov.bd/