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Recently, our Vice Rector for Research, Dr. Aldo Panfichi, published in ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America, an article in which he describes the work developed by the PUCP research team working on the design and manufacture of the MASI low-cost mechanical ventilator. 300 of these medical devices have been produced on our University campus and have been donated to the Peruvian Ministry of Health to help in the fight against COVID-19.
"They all agreed to join the initiative, although they were aware that this was an unprecedented challenge, as biomedical devices had never been designed and produced in Peru before," he describes at the outset.
The article presents the different stages of technological innovation and legal barriers that this project, a pioneer in the production of biomedical equipment in Peru, had to overcome to reach the Intensive Care Units of hospitals in several regions of the country. "This is what all these efforts were ultimately about: helping to save lives. In this process, as a university, we came out of it more convinced of our role of commitment to the country," Dr. Panfichi says in the text.
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