In the midst of the second wave of coronavirus, when we saw in the news that there was a shortage of oxygen and that we needed a solution to provide the necessary care to the COVID-19 patients, Wiese Foundation delivered to ESSALUD 40 Wayrachi devices. These are high-flow oxygen equipments that provide to patients who have developed the coronavirus disease the recuperation that they so urgently need.
This new donation is added to the twenty devices that Wiese Foundation had already delivered to ESSALUD some weeks ago. In that respect, Fernando Sato, the spokesperson from Wayrachi, commented: “One of the main objectives of Wayrachi is to spare the patient the need to be intubated and the need for invasive mechanical ventilation. The second objective is to delay the need for a critical unit, by minutes, hours or days. These devices are providing support to a sizeable proportion of patients that arrive at the emergency area”, stated Sato.
Ingrid Claudet, general manager of Wiese Foundation, stated that, thus far, it has delivered 60 out of the 100 devices that the organization has planned to deliver to ESSALUD, and that the remaining devices would be delivered to the different healthcare networks as their production is gradually completed. Moreover, she mentioned that the importance of these equipments lies in the fact that they contribute to decongest the ICUs and that they alleviate the workload of the intensivists, aside from the fact that they can be installed outside the intensive care area.
“For the patients who receive this treatment, it is also positive, because they do not leave the sequelae that are, indeed, caused by the mechanical ventilators”, stated Claudet.
The delivery of the devices was attended by Fernando Sato, one of the three mechanical engineers who comprise the team who have brought the Wayrachi to life. Sato said that the devices that are produced by his team were developed by Mercedes Benz UCL-Ventura University last year, and that, due to the context, they were placed at the free disposal of any person who wishes to replicate them. This is how Wayrachi contacted the owners of the patents in order to start the manufacture in Peru.
The devices, as Sato stated, work entirely mechanically, so they only need one point of pressured oxygen at more than 45 to 60 PSI. They can offer a flow of oxygen of 0 to 100 liters per minute at a percentage of 30 to 100%, which are adjusted through their knobs. To date, they have already manufactured more than 500 Wayrachi oxygen regulators, which have been delivered among ESSALUD, MINSA, the Police Hospital and the Naval Hospital. Wiese Foundation is among the companies that have contributed with these donations, which, in the coming weeks, will complete the 100 units.
