New Inventions Galore To Strengthen Fight Against Covid-19

Inventors Commission receives over 250 inventions , Some are evaluated while others have been patented or already in production

- Kamanthi Wickramasinghe

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 outbreak has indicated a silver lining. In fact, it has paved the way for budding inventors to put their knowledge into good use during the lockdown period to innovate new equipment to help medical staff and other officials in the frontlines to battle against the deadly virus.

So far the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) has received over 250 such inventions where some are being evaluated while others have been patented or already sent for production.

Under the COVID-19 inventions tab in the SLIC website, one could witness the equipment from automated hand sanitizer to microorganism killing and filtering air conditioners, foot-operated door handles, low-cost open-source ventilators and many more.

Hence, Daily Mirror sheds light on a few new innovations and the role of SLIC in the fight against COVID-19.

SCUBA FACE MASK

“It’s very uncomfortable to wear PPEs and then I remembered this mask,” said Dr Lakmal Fernando working at the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital ICU.

“Then I asked a friend working at Decathlon to give me three masks for an experiment. With this mask, we don’t have to wear PPEs because it has a standard 22mm ventilator tubing adaptor which uses a standard ventilator bacterial and viral filter which filters inhaling and exhaling air.

“It’s comfortable to be worn with standard goggles and N95 face shield has better filtration. The air intake is from the back of the mask so I can face the patient with less droplet intake. Another benefit is that it’s reusable. It’s currently being used at the Jayewardenepura Hospital and National Hospital.”

DISINFECTION CHAMBER