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At the initiative of the government’s information technology department, Walton has developed the WPB 560 ventilator in the ‘PB 560’ model specification from world-renowned medical equipment manufacturer Medtronic.
At a press conference on Tuesday, the Minister of State for Information and Communication Technology, Junaid Ahmed Palak, said: “The functional prototypes of three models of homemade ventilators manufactured by Walton will soon be sent to the Department of Health for clinical trials. “
He said that after obtaining authorization from the department, he can go to experimental and commercial production.
Covid-19 can exacerbate respiratory complications such as pneumonia. At this time, if the lung infection increases, it becomes necessary to provide artificial respiration or ventilation service to the person in crisis.
Medtronic ‘PB 560’ model fan
At a time when patients around the world are in a panic over the Kovid-19 epidemic, the Irish company Medtronic has unveiled the design of its model PB570 ventilator.
For this, the president and CEO of the company Omar Ishraq, who is Bengali, is being praised worldwide.
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One of the three fans in the working prototype is built with Walton Medtronic, Palak said. The joint fan is called WPB570.
“The other two are Walton’s own inventions. And the name of the fan manufactured by Walton’s invention is ‘Walton Covid Build Ventilator 2020 or WCV-20 and the other is WAB-20’. “
Expressing hope that if the coronavirus epidemic lasts longer, it will be possible to meet the demand for quality, locally manufactured ventilators, Palak said. The quality of these is being verified and selected. “
At the press conference, Walton representative Golam Morshed said that Medtronic is supplying the FDA certified fan parts. They agreed to go into production in a joint venture with five companies from five countries. The fan labeled ‘Made in Bangladesh’ will be added to the Walton factory.
ICT Secretary NM Ziaul Alam, IT-ITES Policy Advisor for the LICT project Sami Ahmed, Chief Project Engineer Walton Ventilator Golam Morshed, Walton Director Liaquat Ali were present at the press conference.
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