Bosconian alumni are also designing decontamination chambers for hospitals and quarantine centers. COVID19PH
campaigns of Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
“I am mighty proud of our Bosconian alumni engineers from all over the world. They are on the cusp of producing a prototype open source ventilator…. They are based in Manila, Cebu, Singapore, USA and elsewhere,” Dimaranan said on Facebook. The fast-tracking of the ventilator development is a joint project of the Don Bosco Mandaluyong Alumni Association, led by Fletcher Von Aquino; and the Don Bosco Mandaluyong InnoVision Center, under Romel Pasia.WORK. Scholars of Don Bosco Technical Vocational Education Training Center lead the production of face shields for frontliners. Photo by DBTC
Amores said the ventilators being designed by Don Bosco’s InnoVision Center “can help hospitals in the provinces which cannot buy ventilators that cost P700,000 to P1 million.”
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