#30: Plastic Saving Lives | Dr. Md. Jobayer Chisti

Dr. Md Jobayer Chisti's simple and highly effective Bubble CPAP process to save the lives of children suffering from pneumonia in low and middle-income countries

Key takeaways:

[2:30] Dr. Md Jobayer Chisti has been working in the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and he is proud of the opportunity which actually helped and led him to invent Bubble CPAP through distilled water bottles and plastic bottles

[3:50] Dr. Chisti had a very emotional experience in the first night of his work as an intern (after completing his MBBS) where he witnessed about 3 infants passing away due to severe pneumonia.

[6:30] From there Dr. Chisti went ahead to do his specialization on Child Health and further research in Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne where he studied the CPAP technology in detail and then came back to ICDDR,B to take on to the challenge of simplifying the mechanism of Bubble CPAP

[10:30] The trial process during Dr. Chisti's PHD years and the result of reduction in infant mortality

[13:00] Moments of struggles and Dr. Chisti's explanation of affordable non-invasive ventilation (Bubble CPAP) - the do's and do not's and constant medical supervision required for this process

[23:00] Dr. Chisti's activities & interests beyond clinical and research work, he also visits many under-developed places around the world to help hospitals and medical institutions learn his affordable Bubble CPAP mechanism

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Mentioned in this episode: Dr. Chisti's feature on BBC -'The shampoo bottle saving babies from pneumonia'