Four devices created to tackle COVID-19

Muscat: The Scientific Club of the Royal Armed Forces creates four devices to contribute to tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

The inventions included sterilizing room, papers sterilizer, triple respirator, and smart face mask.

Sterilization room for individuals: This device is a mobile room that can be placed at the entrances to institutions, which enables the individual to sterilize himself before entering his workplace. The device contains a wireless network that sends data about the number of individuals who have been sterilized, in addition to the presence of traffic lights to organize traffic in the device according to the safe distance between the people.

Ultraviolet sterilization of papers: The papers are considered to be one of the surfaces that transmit viruses. A self-operated device was used to sterilize the papers through ultraviolet rays that proved effective in getting rid of microorganisms. The device was examined in the laboratory of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces, and the results were positive.

Creating a smart face mask: The main goal of creating this device is to protect doctors, nurses and all medical staff from contact with the face when dealing with people infected with Coronaviruses COVID-19, as the device raises an alert when the hand approaches the face of the doctor.

Triple respirator: A triple ventilator that works with one operator of three oxygen air pumps working for three patients at the same time, different in the quality of injury and poor breathing.

Ahmed Al Jadidi, the inventor of the triple ventilator, said: “The triple respirator is a triple artificial respirator that works with one operator for three patients at the same time. And the device works with one operator, but it also works for each patient with different levels of oxygen and the amount of pressure estimated by the doctor or nurse, and we can also use the device in fixed hospitals or field hospitals and open halls."

He added, "The device was examined in the workshops and specialized laboratories of the Royal Armed Force, and it can also be developed further, and all the parts used are available in the local market, and we can manufacture this device whenever the competent authorities want it.”