The Dreamers are the brainchild of Roya Mahboob, CEO of the Herat-based Afghan Citadel Software Company. She has been working with the five girls on the ventilator team, Somaya Faruqi, Dyana Wahbzadeh, Folernace Poya, Ellaham Mansori and Nahid Rahimi, for a year. “I work with the girls, but mostly to coordinate,” Mahboob toldThe team’s ventilators are based on ones devised by scholars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
While the idea is for the ventilators to be used only in emergency cases in which there are no other options, Mahboob explained that such cases may soon become all too frequent in her country. “We had to be prepared for the worst situation because we do not have access to Amazon and other companies for online orders,” she toldAfghan medical personnel, long faced with a serious shortage of equipment, are forced to become “de facto engineers, repairing vital solar power systems, fixing plumbing, and performing a wide range of tasks far outside their ostensible job descriptions,”When the Dreamers started their project, they tried to find digital ventilator parts they could import from...
Mahboob is hoping the machines will be ready for use by the end of May or June. A prototype ventilator would then need to be approved by the World Health Organization and the Afghan Public Health Ministry, Dr. Mehdi Hadid, a member of the consultative board fighting the spread of COVID-19 in Herat, told
JustWhatNowWhy Outstanding girls . . . . !! Girl power in full effect to save lives, even in Afghanistan!!👍🏾💗🙏🏾💃🏾
Ursalette Amazing. Aghanistan has progressed greatly in educating its kids from a science & technology standpoint. They've made great strides. This shows that our efforts in Afghanistan have been for nothing.
jkbjournalist Girl power!
jkbjournalist Now that's woman power!!!
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julia_bergeron The first half of this tweet I thought it was describing America
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