Anti-virus face mask makes wearers no longer feel stuffy
Phúc said at first when he wore the air purifier mask [which has two round-shaped filters and is connected with a long pipe], other people thought he was infected with some disease.
“Then they started to be curious about its function. Now people realise its health benefits. Unless face masks have health benefits, they can not survive in society.”
“I hope that masks will soon become a lifestyle so that wearing masks will become more popular among everyone. In the future, I think wearing face masks will become a fashion trend like women’s jewellery.”
Metran is open to bringing face mask solutions to the public and welcome ideas to make the masks more suitable for wearers, for example, how to make the masks more fashionable, Phúc said. —VNS
BOX: More about Phúc’s inventions
During the early days of the pandemic outbreak last year, ventilators made by Metran have saved lives of many patients in Việt Nam.
Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long said the ventilators "not only meet the demand of treating critically-ill COVID- 一 九 patients who need invasive mechanical ventilation, but also applies to patients with respiratory failure and other medical treatments and respiratory diseases."
MV 二0’s technology has been transferred to the UK and the ventilators have been distributed to many countries around the world to treat COVID patients.
In the 一 九 八0s, Phúc developed a high frequency oscillatory ventilator (HFO), named Hu妹妹ingbird that assists newborns’ breathing.
Metran’s HFO allowed for diffusion of air supply at a rate thousands of times faster than machines available then. Metran's HFO ventilators have saved the lives of tens of thousands of premature babies in Japan and more than 一 六 countries around the world.
They have been installed and used in more than 九0 per cent of neonatal intensive care units in Japan and are rated as the best neonatal ventilators at that time. — VNS