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The Ministry of Industry, Trade, Green and Digital Economy announces that it has mobilized a team of industrialists and engineers to design and manufacture in Morocco a resuscitation bed that meets international standards in terms of safety and performance. and at a competitive price.
“This pioneering project, the prototype of which was presented on August 27, 2020, in the presence of the Minister of Industry, Trade, Green and Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, was designed within the framework of a public-private collaboration, coordinated by the Ministry and combining industrial companies, an engineering office and technical centers, ”he underlined in a press release.
The same source specifies that the project team includes, in addition to the Ministries of Industry and Health, Altran, Maroc bureau, GroupElec Engima, Richbond, Aviarail, EFOA, the Center for Studies and Research of Metallurgical Industries , mechanical, electrical and electronic (CERIMME) and the Technical Center for Wood and Furniture Industries (CTIBA).
According to the ministry, the objective is to meet, on the one hand, the national needs for equipment and supplies intended for the health sector and to support, on the other hand, the government’s guidelines aimed at promoting local production, in particular in sectors that have become strategic in this period of health crisis.
This resuscitation bed, which complies with international standards in particular IEC 60601-2-52 for patient safety, represents a viable and accessible alternative to imported beds, it is pointed out.
It allows Morocco to face the challenges of the pandemic at a competitive cost, in a context of a shortage of this type of beds in certain regions of the world, and possibly to supply other countries, particularly in Africa.
This new model of resuscitation beds was produced locally from components and materials available in Morocco. The prototype, developed in nine weeks, has a metal structure designed in 3D, to health and medical standards with industrialization know-how mastered in Morocco.
As for the electronic part, it integrates existing solutions on the market and allows the nursing staff, thanks to a multimedia control console, to perform the necessary manipulations for the patients in intensive care.
The project team is now working on developing an industrialization strategy by favoring the use of locally manufactured components.
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