Innovations in Healthcare
Pakistani engineering, tech companies can make miracles

on 25/01/2023

Pakistan’s two top-notch companies and an engineering regulatory body emerged on the same page in a moot in the federal capital that the joint effort of the country’s industry can make miracles in terms of local manufacturing of engineering products that swallow billions of dollars through their import.
The Alsons Group of Industries, a leading industrial group in Pakistan, and Systems Limited, a known IT company seemed to agree to launch a joint effort for innovation and local production of medical devices and the support system in the field of the healthcare system. The Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) assured them of its complete support at every step.
The moot titled ‘Innovations in Healthcare’ was organized by The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Committee (I&EE), Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) in a local hotel.
Alsons Group of Industries, a leading industrial group in Pakistan collaborated in the event, sponsored by Systems Limited, the premier technology organization in Pakistan, with a track record of over 45 years of providing successful solutions to complex business problems under digital, data, cloud and business traveled process outsourcing.
The guest speaker David J. Howard, is a known medical professor, and technologist to Pakistan from the UK.
Engr. Najeeb Haroon said Pakistan needs a lot to be done and he appreciated Dr. Howard’s initiative to travel to Pakistan at his own expense. ‘I assure you that PEC will continue to support innovative initiatives, he added.
Mr. Howard gave a detailed presentation on the latest innovations in medical sciences, biomedical engineering, and devices.
He also shared his global experience as regards new needs and requirements in the field of health care systems in developing countries.
He was of the view that Pakistan has an enormous potential in healthcare. Why? Because he said you are in the land of the greatest civilization and lessons are to be learned from history.
He talked about how the joint effort of the people from different fields, governments, engineers, physicists, chemists, doctors, etc. made possible medical equipment and devices in human history.
People even call innovators mad and later their inventions were widely used. He gave an example of Dr. Archie Brain who was called mad but his invention Laryngeal Mask was being used up to 56 percent by 2018 by anesthetists.
He talked about new ideas and old ones reworked saying we should see the pst for the future.
Only wealthy countries have sufficient ventilators, which are highly sophisticated. He asked if there was a treatment method for both wealthy and poor people.
Yes, negative pressure breathing support devices were first designed in the 19th century. They are much safer and more effective than modern positive pressure ventilators. The Alsons Group, he said made one small and efficient device called Allno Ventura.
He had his reasons why Exovent is efficient as he said it did not need oxygen.
He said the main requirement of the future is that the present and next generation of doctors should keep an open mind to research and reintroduce negative pressure respiratory support alongside positive pressure devices. ‘We need to develop both, each has its advantages and disadvantages. We need systems to treat respiratory disease in every country.
Chairman, Alsons Group Abdul Rehman Allana
shared his experience of how his industry started manufacturing biomedical devices and became the very first Pakistani company to produce locally manufactured devices.
He dwelt upon the history of Alsons and what it had been producing. We are very focused on our goals and the epicenter is Pakistan, contributing to the national effort.
‘We are ready for mass production of ventilators after DRAP approvals.
He said the efforts are also on to making Exovent, a negative pressure respiratory machine. ‘I think we shall develop negative pressure device while many other countries are also doing it.
He says Pakistan needs a lot of companies on board, together they can make locally made products and export things worth billions of dollars as we have every advantage which we should use in the medical field.
Mr. Ashraf ul Kabir, Senior Vice President, Engineering highlighted the market and technology trends present in the healthcare sector and the contributions done by Systems Limited in terms of expertise and solutions to healthcare clients globally. “Systems Limited is working tremendously and in-depth in the healthcare sector by leveraging data in each stage of the whole pharma process using data analytics,” said Mr. Ashraf ul Kabir.
Dr. Bhawany Shankar Chaudhry said in his welcome address said David J. Howard will take the moot in the history of innovations. He told the moot about the background of how this program became a reality. ‘We believe it is the most relevant program in terms of biomedical engineering, producing devices and products for our healthcare systems.
The moot was participated by Secretary Planning & Development, Special Secretary Health, CEO Ignite, officials from DRAP, professors from NUST and other engineering, universities, NESCOM, doctors, and medical technologists. n

Phenomena of Electron Ionization

on 19/01/2023

This procedure is thought of as a hard high discontinuity ionization strategy since it utilizes exceptionally vigorous electrons to deliver particles. This prompts broad fracture, which can be useful for structure assurance of obscure mixtures. Electron Ionization is the most valuable for natural mixtures which have a sub-atomic load under 600. In an Electron Ionization particle source, electrons are delivered through thermionic emanation by warming a wire fiber that has electric flow going through it. The dynamic energy of the assaulting electrons ought to have higher energy than the ionization energy of the example atom. The electrons are sped up to 70 eV in the district between the fiber and the entry to the particle source block. The example being scrutinized which contains the nonpartisan particles is acquainted with the particle source in an opposite direction to the electron bar. Close entry of profoundly fiery electrons in low tension (ca. 10−5 to 10−6 torr) causes huge changes in the electric field around the nonpartisan atoms and prompts ionization and discontinuity. Expanding the electron ionization process is finished by expanding the ionization effectiveness. To accomplish higher ionization productivity there ought to be an improved fiber current, discharge current, and ionizing current. The current provided to the fiber to warm it to brilliant is known as the fiber current. The outflow current is the current estimated between the fiber and the electron passage cut. Direct inclusion electron ionization mass spectrometry (direct addition EI-MS) has been utilized for the ID of archeological glues, for example, tars, saps, and waxes found during unearthings on archeological locales. These examples are commonly explored utilizing gas chromatography-MS with extraction, purging, and derivatization of the examples. Because of the way that these examples were stored in ancient periods, they are regularly saved in modest quantities. The electron ionization season of flight mass spectroscopy (EI-TOF MS) is appropriate for logical and essential substance material science studies. EI-TOF MS is utilized to track down ionization possibilities of particles and revolutionaries, just as bond separation energies for particles and unbiased atoms. One more utilization of this strategy is to learn about regrettable particle science and physical science. The compositional varieties at the atomic not set in stone from the natural creation task. Super high settling power, little example size, high reproducibility, and mass precision (<0.4ppm) are the unique highlights of this technique. The significant item was sweet-smelling hydrocarbons in each of the three examples. Likewise, many sulfurs-, nitrogen-, and oxygen-containing compounds were straightforwardly seen when the convergence of this heteroatomic species expanded with the limit. The emanation current is the current estimated between the fiber and the electron section cut. The ionizing current is the pace of the electron landing in the snare. It is an immediate proportion of the quantity of electrons in the chamber that are accessible for ionization.In Vacuum complex technique the example is first embedded into a warmed example repository in the vacuum complex. It then, at that point, escapes into the ionization chamber through a pinhole. This strategy is helpful with profoundly unpredictable examples that may not be viable with other example presentation techniques.Gas chromatography (GC) is the most broadly involved strategy in EI-MS for test inclusion. GC can be joined for the partition of combinations of thermally steady and unstable gases which are in ideal coordinate with the electron ionization conditions.The direct-EI point of interaction is a scaled down interface for nano-and miniature HPLC in which the communicating system happens in an appropriately changed particle source. Higher responsiveness, linearity, and reproducibility can be gotten in light of the fact that the elution from the section is totally moved into the particle source. Utilizing these two connection points electron ionization can be effectively fused for the investigation of little and medium-sized atoms with different polarities.n

SAU forms alumni forum, seeks support

on 19/01/2023

Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tando Jam has formed a forum of its alumni in a bid to encourage them for paying back to their institution.
SAU has over 44 thousand alumni who are either serving or doing businesses across Pakistan and abroad after obtaining degrees from the university’s Faculty of Agriculture Engineering.
Several alumni of the university have announced financial support to the endowment fund set up for scholarships.
The Silver Jubilee Ceremony of alumni, who completed their degrees 25
years ago from the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering of Sindh Agriculture University, was held last week.
Vice-Chancellor Dr. Fateh Marri said that the SAU has undertaken various stages of development of academic, research, infrastructure, and curriculum by world standards, and laboratories and classrooms have been modernized during the last 25 years, while research, inventions, and skills are being seriously pursued around the world, the world still faces climate change, disasters, food security, temperature, and other threats and challenges.
Dr. Altaf Siyal, Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ismail Kumbhar, Director, University Advancement
and Financial Assistance, Bashir Ahmed Sheikh, Ikramullah Qadri, Abdul Qadir Raj Rajpar, Furqan Soomro, and others also spoke on the occasion. — PR

US Consul General visits SCCI

on 19/01/2023

United States Consul General in Lahore William Makaneole visited the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI).
President SCCI Mian Imran Akbar, Senior Vice President (SVP) Sheikh Zohaib Rafique Sethi and Vice President (VP) Qasim Malik warmly welcomed the US consul general.
Speaking on the occasion, the SCCI President said the US was the top trading partner of Pakistan and the business community of Sialkot remained committed to strengthening the existing bilateral trade relations which in trading figures had a major share in the total external trade of the country.
He proposed that effective coordination should be established between SCCI and US Consulate’s economic team to work on the prospects of exchanging trade delegations, exhibitions and finding common grounds for collaboration.
US Consul General Lahore William Makaneole expressed gratitude over the warm welcome and assured his full support and assistance in creating business-to-business linkages to promote bilateral trade between the US and Pakistan. Makaneole said that joint efforts would be made to enhance the role of women entrepreneurs in the economic development of Pakistan. — ERMD

Rs747 m approved for
gasifying villages near gas fields

on 19/01/2023

Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has approved Rs747.539 million Technical Supplementary Grant (TSG) for undertaking the supply of gas to 85 villages/localities in the current fiscal year.
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin presided over the moot called on a proposal of the Ministry of Energy.
The effort is aimed at supplying gas to localities and villages located within a radius of 5 kilometers of gas-producing fields.
The committee accorded approval of TSG in favor of the Petroleum Division for further releasing of funds to the SSGCL to undertake gas supply in localities during the ongoing fiscal year.
In 2020, ECC had approved a Supplementary Grant of Rs1 billion in favor of the SSGCL to undertake the Phase-I of the project during the financial year 2020-21.
The Finance Division had released Rs515.255 million to the SSGCL which undertook gasification of 75 villages during the fiscal year 2021.
The committee was informed of the requirement of Rs747 539 million for SSGCL during the current fiscal year.
The Petroleum Division had been advised to approach Cabinet Division to seek funds from the portfolio of the Sustainable Development Goals Achievement Program (SAP).
Sindh High Court (SHC) had again taken up the case of gasification of villages and localities within the radius of 5km of gas fields in Sindh province.
The court had also asked Secretary Petroleum and Secretary Finance for appearing physically in the court as they had failed to respond to the show-cause notices serving upon them in 2020.
The ECC was informed about the directives of the Supreme Court of 2013 as well as the CCI decision of 2017. — ERMD