“I saw people having difficulties in breathing and many have died because they could not get a machine to help them provide vital oxygen,” said Adawe, who is studying public health.Īside from locally-made items - African countries are also employing other technology to tackle the virus. While doctors normally need to pump oxygen via an Ambu bag valve mask by hand on patients struggling to breathe, Adawe’s contraption - made up of a wooden box, pipes and an electric system - pushes oxygen from an air tank into a mask placed over the patient’s mouth. 4.5/5. She states that they need a superintendent for the building, but Gordon insists he can fix it. Susan alerts Gordon that the window is broken as well and that he should hurry with the door (so she can get to work). Meanwhile in Somalia, which has limited capacity to respond to its growing caseload, 21-year-old Mohamed Adawe has invented an automated resuscitator. SCENE: Big Bird welcomes the viewer, when he notices Gordon repairing one of the doorknobs to 123 Sesame Streets front door. In Ghana, the Academic City College in Accra and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi managed to produce a ventilator costing between $500 and $1,000 which takes only an hour to assemble.Ī group of Rwandan biomedical scientists at the Integrated Polytechnic Regional College in Kigali have also been testing a locally made prototype ventilator. The ventilator is undergoing clinical trials. “We are making machines with locally available material … pandemics can come and go but other conditions also require critical care,” he said. In Kenya, engineering students in collaboration with the medical department at the Kenyatta University, produced a low-cost ventilator at a tenth of the price of an imported machine - estimated at $10,000.ĭoctor Gordon Ogweno, a medical professor at the university said Kenya had about 50 working ventilators for a population of more than 50 million. Most African countries have only a handful of the machines and 10 have none at all, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
“If one of those passengers tested positive we are now able to trace all the contacts who checked in on that particular vehicle, ” said Tairus Ooyi, the lead app developer and data scientist at FabLab.Īnother busy area of innovation has been the production of ventilators, which have been in short supply even in rich countries as COVID-19 patients needing oxygen have swamped hospitals.
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With it, passengers entering a minibus taxi - known as a matatu - can input a simple code on their phone along with the vehicle registration number. Developers in Kenya’s thriving tech scene are among several on the continent working on contact tracing apps.įabLab, an innovation hub in western Kisumu has developed an application called Msafari (Safari means journey in Swahili) which can track passengers on public transport.
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