As part of the six shortlisted Nigerians in this year’s Royal Academy of Engineering Awards, these two, Yusuf Bilesanmi and Taofeek Olalekan are working on solutions that will improve the healthcare system in Nigeria greatly.
It is no news that that the healthcare system in Nigeria has increasing worsened over the years with many professionals leaving the country for greener pastures thus leaving the doctor to patient ratio at an abysmal 1:100000 due to the high population density in the country, in addition to poor working conditions by the remaining doctors such as delayed salaries and many other grievances.
However, these two have engineered solutions that when deployed will help bring a new level of efficiency to the healthcare system and hopefully reduce the strain on the remaining medical personnel.
Taofeek’s solution – RealDrip is an innovative intravenous infusion device which will help medical practitioners administer precise infusions to pregnant women and blood transfusion patients.
The artificial intelligence based solution, will according to Taofeek, provide routine updates via web services and alerts remotely to doctors and will no longer require doctors to monitor patients infusions manually. RealDrip will also help save the patients data helping these institutions with database features.
Our second Inventor, Yusuf Bilesanmi seeks to provide non-invasive and non-electric ventilators for the medical ecosystem at a tiny fraction of the price for existing ventilators – ShiVent.
News of the unavailability of mechanical ventilators are not foreign, especially during this pandemic, it is indeed welcome news as Nigeria can only boast of 288 mechanical ventilators.
According to Bilesanmi, the low-cost and easily replicable ventilators that don’t depend on electricity have been tested by the National Centre for Sports and Exercise and Medicine at the Loughborough University and Leicester Royal infirmary Hospital and meets the CPAP requirements set by the Medicines and Health Regulatory Agency in the UK.