Helping India Breathe: Kashmir Students Make Low-Cost Portable Ventilator From Scrap

The students in their early 20s say they decided to make affordable and user friendly ventilators after its acute shortage during the peak of Covid.

Two students of the University of Kashmir have made a portable ventilator by using just scrap after witnessing a massive shortage of ventilators during the pandemic. The ventilator prototype is embedded with a cloud-based system which can help doctors to monitor parameters of a patient on their mobile phones.  The students in their early 20s say they decided to make affordable and user friendly ventilators after its acute shortage during the peak of Covid. For Sajid Noor, son of a daily wage labourer, it was his passion to do something for the country even when his family was facing livelihood challenges due to the lockdown. Sajid and his friend Jahangir put together scrap material and started working on a portable ventilator. After months of hardwork, the electronics students were successful. “My father, who is a labourer, couldn't go for work. But my priority was to build something for the nation because the country was struggling due to the shortage of ventilators. We built a small, low-cost ventilator from scrap which was available at our homes,” Sajid told NDTV.