Nigerian scientist, Yusuf Bilesanmi developed ventilators that doesn‘t require electricity.
The Lasu graduate, Yusuf Bilesanmi, who owns shifa technology, has won the Africa Prize for Engineering and developing an efficient and working ventilator and uses way less oxygen to carry out the same function as a regular ventilator.
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