Alumni of Don Bosco Technical College (DBTC) have teamed up to create a low-cost ventilator to meet the increasing demand of the medical appliance because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. The Don Bosco Ventilator (DB Ventilator) is 28 times cheaper than its commercial counterparts. The group, dubbed as BRO72 BosconianReachOut, said their ventilators would cost P25,000 to P35,000, while commercial ventilators could cost up to a million pesos each. The inventors said they aim to provide cheap ventilators to public and rural hospitals that can’t afford the equipment. “Our target hospitals are those who cannot afford to buy expensive ventilators, hospitals in rural areas, or those that simply do not have the budget to secure the highly expensive equipment,” they said in a statement.

Source: Manila Times April 29, 2020 16:18 UTC