Project Details


AI Repository Project

WSIS Prizes Contest 2020 Nominee

Pakistan’s First Portable Kidney Dialysis Kit


Biomedical Devices

Description

Byonyks is Pakistan’s first biomedical engineering startup that exclusively focuses on developing affordable portable healthcare devices for the one billion that do not have access to these by using state-of-the-art existing medical technology. As a first in Pakistan, Byonyks is developing an affordable automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) machine that counters the challenges associated with hemodialysis.

Pakistan's 200 million has no access to a single APD machine to serve kidney failure patients. There are an estimated 314,000 active patients waiting to get dialysis treatment in hospitals that will otherwise die. Byonyks has signed up multiple major medical institutes and hospitals to provide the machine as soon as it is launched in the market after the upcoming patient trials. Byonyks' medical technology will impact the upper, middle and lower-income social groups across the country in terms of cost, the convenience of medical treatment and the safety of APD therapy. The machine will also reach countries that do not have access to such technology after launching in Pakistan.

Project website

https://byonyks.com/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2020
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Coverage
  • Asia and Pacific

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2019

End date

2025


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Migrants
  • Refugees and internally displaced people
  • Remote and rural communities
  • Kidney failure patients.

Replicability

We can replicate manufacturing across various countries that have no access to such technologies. We can utilize local infrastructure to assemble the products.


Sustainability

Byonyks is a biomedical ecosystem for-profit company that is significantly reducing the cost of manufacturing advanced medical technologies. We will be addressing a demand and supply ecosystem through our products and services. There will be sales, services and maintenance support


WSIS values promotion

Byonyks biomedical innovations are focused on bringing affordable technology to save lives and improve health while ensuring that patients can continue to realize their full human social and economic potential. Our innovation fulfills the WSIS health obligations to save, extend and improve lives while providing the data to build a national kidney registry and use ICTs such as IoT and the cloud to provide home therapies that can be remotely configured by nephrologists and monitor patient health.


Entity name

Byonyks

Entity country—type

Pakistan Private Sector

Entity website

https://byonyks.com/