INTEC donates mechanical ventilators to the Marcelino Vélez Santana Hospital
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) donated four mechanical ventilators mechanics Air INTEC to the Doctor Marcelino Vélez Santana Regional General Hospital who will be assigned to the clinical emergency unit of that health center.
The donation was received by Dr. Ruth Pimentel, the hospital's Internal Medicine manager, who indicated that the ventilators will be used on patients who require immediate intubation upon arrival at the emergency room.
Upon delivering the ventilators, INTEC's Academic Vice-Rector, Arturo del Villar, indicated that the four units donated to the Marcelino Vélez Santana Hospital belong to the equipment manufactured by students, professors, collaborators, and university graduates during the COVID-19 pandemic, in an effort joined by various sponsoring companies.
“These ventilators are an example of a multidisciplinary effort involving professors, students and graduates from different INTEC programs. Initially, they were our great contribution to addressing the impact of COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic, but today they will be of great help in the emergency at this important health center,” said del Villar, who was accompanied by Betsy Campsteyn, general coordinator of INTEC Laboratories, and Manuel Guerrero, student of the Engineering Area of the university.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic to date, INTEC has donated more than 300 Air INTEC fans to different hospitals and the national health system.
About Air INTEC
The mechanical ventilator Air INTEC It was manufactured by a team of students, graduates, collaborators, and professors from the university with the altruistic support of various institutions. This work began as soon as the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the country and health personnel raised the alarm about the shortage of ventilators. This was one of the several ways in which INTEC contributed to combating the pandemic.
The fan is of type Ambi (Airway Mask Bag Unit, in English) and is based in part on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) model, to which improvements were applied to facilitate its manufacture and operation in the country. The team received the Technological Innovation Award from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Mescyt), in 2020.
The institutions that joined INTEC in the manufacture of mechanical ventilators were the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, AES Dominicana, the Ministries of Public Health, Higher Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Multiform Plastics, Rockwell, FARCO, the Technical Professional Training Institute (INFOTEP), JPIM, Machmaker, Mecaproject, TSM, ADERCA, Ibero-American University (UNIBE), Acrílicos DR and Tony Rodamientos, among others.