PEC Chairman visits AT, assures his support for local engineering initiatives
Alsons develops
new variant of ventilator

Engr. Najeeb Haroon, the Chairman of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) visited Alsons Technologies (AT) in Karachi last week.
The intent was crystal clear that the council is always ready to support every initiative that could bolster the engineering industry in Pakistan.
His visit coincided with yet another achievement of AT that has developed a prototype of different kind of ventilator ready to go through the registration process of the council.
This machine has been developed in association with Exovent – a UK-based non-profit organization comprising senior clinicians and professors from some of the UK’s top medical universities and hospitals.
Chairman Alsons Group Abdul Rehman Allana who hosted Engr Haroon says this low-cost high-tech device can be critical to saving lives affected by respiratory failure.
AT, a subsidiary of Alsons Group has the prestige to be the only Pakistani company that has produced three locally manufactured biomedical devices in Pakistan.
AT has successfully manufactured and eventually introduced into the market a High-Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO)/ Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine namely Alnno Ventura, and its ventilator under the approval process of the Drug Regulatory Authority, Pakistan (DRAP). The company has announced its ICU ventilator, the AlnnoVent AVB100 has successfully completed 285 hours on a single patient at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore. The patient has been connected to our device 24/7 since 16th May 2022.
“This is in addition to 139 hours of clinical trials conducted previously on 26 different patients’, Akbar Allana, a director of Alsons Group told Engineering Review.
Engr. Najeeb Haroon and Abdul Rehman Allana agreed that the local initiatives should be supported so that the engineering industry may be able to produce Pakistan-made products.
Mr. Allana assured Chairman PEC of his complete support in the council’s initiatives for the training of fresh engineers through the internship program and also would bolster its liaison with the academia for research and development of engineering products in Pakistan.
Alsons Group is liaising with several Pakistani universities including NUST, MUET, Jamshoro, Biomedical Institute LUMS, DUET, Karachi, SAU, Tando Jam, etc. – By Manzoor Shaikh