Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti was a young doctor in Sylhet, Bangladesh, when three pneumonic children died under his watch for lack of a ventilator. Refusing to accept defeat, he developed an ingenious alternative using discarded shampoo bottles that revolutionised medical treatment in the field.
This inspiring story is courtesy of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.
This inspiring story is courtesy of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.
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01:15I have taken a plastic sample bottle,
01:17poured with water, and the mechanism which I used,
01:21which is the bubble, that it produces bubble
01:24by the exhaled air done by the patient.
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01:39Patient takes oxygen from oxygen cylinder
01:42through the nasal cannula.
01:44Then after taking oxygen, patient exhales air.
01:48That air comes through an expiratory arm
01:52and it goes through or passes through
01:55the water-filled plastic bottle and produces the bubble.
02:00That bubble gives the back pressure.
02:02This is called PEEP, P-W-P, positive and expiratory pressure.
02:07In a sustained pressure, it actually opens the lungs.
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02:18It is very simple to make
02:20and it is very cheap.
02:22So it is accessible and also affordable.
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02:35As the device is very simple
02:38and it only requires plastic bottle poured with water
02:41in addition to WHO nasal prong,
02:44so it can easily be handled with any health professionals
02:50like nurses or health workers.
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03:13It is not only easily handled,
03:16but it is very affordable even in a very low resource setting.
03:21It only costs around $2, maximum $2.