ISLAMABAD – The Government of Pakistan, in a bid to deal with the shortageof ventilators in the country, has brought together all the relevant publicand private companies along with technology product companies and asked toshowcase designs and models for ventilators.
Multiple companies have sent their designs and ventilators, which will besent for approval from a committee formed by the government; which willtest this within the criteria and after this the prep work will start.
A Pakistani startup on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Poulta, has developeda ventilator that has been sent to the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The founder and CEO ofPoulta, Ali Murtaza Solangi while talking to the media said that while theyaren’t a ventilator company and work in improving the poultry farmingindustry they have created a smart and portable ventilator that could bemonitored centrally.
He said that in traditional ventilators, they had to train people tooperate them which were drain on precious resources but this way, the smartventilator can be operated remotely and centrally through the internet.
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He said that ventilators from abroad can cost $10,000-$12,000 but the onethey developed cones with the same quality but costs $2200. He said thatthey had sent the design and model of the ventilator to PEC and NDMA, ifapproved they could make 500 to 1000 ventilators in just five weeks.
