Hi. My name is Hank DeBey. My team and I are in Africa, and we have developed an amazing new medical device to treat the most lethal diseases in Africa, lung diseases.

Lung diseases kill more than three times as many people as malaria.

An essential tool for treating lung diseases is the ventilator, but in Africa, ventilators are virtually non-existent. In Africa, there is less than one ventilator for every 100,000 people, while in the USA, there are 35 ventilators for every 100,000.

The primary reason ventilators are rarely found in Africa is they are very expensive, ranging from $20,000 to $55,000.

Another factor contributing to the scarcity of ventilators in Africa is the fact that they require a procedure called intubation and people sufficiently trained to carry out intubations are about as scarce as the ventilators themselves.

We have developed a ventilator that is perfect for use in Africa. We call it the Afri-Genie ventilator, and it offers a truly life-saving solution for millions of people across Africa each year.

Our Afri-Genie ventilator is incredibly low-cost at less than $3,000 and it doesn't require intubations to be performed, yet it achieves the basic specifications of conventional ventilators. Those two factors mean that it can be deployed not only in big city hospitals but it can even be used by minimally-trained community health workers in small rural clinics.

A key design principle of our Afri-Genie ventilator is the use of locally available materials common across Africa, such as plumbing pipes and automotive repair parts. This eliminates complex, expensive supply chains and simplifies manufacturing and ongoing product support.

We urgently need your help to carry out clinical trials of our new ventilator and to start deploying it as widely as possible.

Here is How Your Contributions Will Be Used:

- Upgrade to fair salaries for our dedicated volunteer team

- Upgrade our production capabilities

- Conduct 24-hour stress testing of multiple ventilators to prove durability and reliability

- Install solar panels to ensure uninterrupted power for testing, despite daily power outages

- Relocate to a larger facility that can support expanded operations

- Cover clinical trial expenses, including regulatory approvals, supplies, and logistics


Of course, these aspirations hinge upon the help you can give us and the actual level of these activities will be scaled according to the donations received


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