It has been such a great time this week, because we had the opportunity to visit PAM offices at Queen Elizabeth hospital. During my school years I have so far been given problems to analyse and come up with a solution. But this time, it was real problem solving because we analysed faults in machines that are being used at the hospital.The whole aim in doing this was that we develop a new project from this summer after having finished the phototherapy dozing meter.

We got exposed to many machines and the personnel who led us Mr. Joseph Mulungu explained how each of the devices worked. Besides the operation he also explained the faults that each machine usually faces regularly of which two of them were the suction pump and oxygen concentrators.

The Suction pump had problems with overflow of liquids into the pump. The oxygen concentrator had problems with sieve beds which are used to filter oxygen from normal air. The sieve beds would get wet at times there by affecting the molecular silica in them.

I really had fun coming to learn the different medical equipments and knowing that I would be part of the team developing the solution. I can’t wait to start brainstorming ideas.