COVID-19 WATCH
200-level ABU student designs and manufactures manual ventilator in 2 days
A student of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Kaduna State, has been hailed for designing and manufacturing a “manual ventilator” in 2 days to aid Nigeria in the treatment of Coronavirus patients.
20-year-old Usman Dalhatu, from Gombe state, is a 200-level student of Mechanical Engineering at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU).
Usman has been an inventor since secondary school, made the manual ventilator with locally sourced materials.
He said that he designed and produced the manual ventilator as part of the effort to assist the Federal Government to fight the Coronavirus pandemic.
Below is a video of him explaining how the manual ventilator is used.
