ShiShi Oxylife One Oxygen Tank, Serving Many Patients
ShiShi Oxylife One Oxygen Tank, Serving Many Patients
Primary SDG:
Founder(s):
Sheillah Bagayana
Current Start-up Stage:
Prototyping
Venture Type:
Niche Venture
Milestones:
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2017
Founded
-
2018
Prototype built through Chinese manufacturing partner with $10,000 grant
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2019
Started Working with USV
-
2020
Won a $10,000 grant to increase production and marketing
-
2020
Production capacity increased in Uganda to 20 per sales cycle.
The Problem
21,000 children die from pneumonia in Uganda each year. Worldwide, the figure is 1.6 million children under-5 dying. Many of these deaths could be prevented with proper access to oxygen in hospitals.
Unfortunately, oxygen tanks are scarce and slow to be refilled. Therefore, hospitals either cannot treat most patient or they attach multiple patients to one tank through makeshift wiring of tubes.
However, the makeshift division of the oxygen to each patient is unregulated, so patients may be receiving not enough, or too much, oxygen. Moreover, oxygen is often wasted through extra tubes not being used all the time, just compounding the scarcity of the tanks.
The Product
The ShiShi Oxylife splitter is a device which is attached to oxygen tanks to regulate how much oxygen is being used simultaneously by each patient – thereby ensuring patient safety and prolonging the time the oxygen tank can be used for.
This device is manufactured locally to make it affordable for hospitals and easy for regular maintenance.
The Impact
Through the ShiShi Oxylife splitter, many more hospitals will be able to provide safe levels of oxygen to its patients, preventing hundred of deaths.
The Future
Shishi is currently working to scale up sales to hospitals around Uganda. They will then reach out to facilities around East Africa, and then beyond.
The team’s wider vision is to increase locally made medical technologies /products. This will involve establishing a fully-fledged ISO accredited manufacturing and assembly facility in Uganda.
Primary SDG:
Founder(s):
Sheillah Bagayana
Current Start-up Stage:
Prototyping
Venture Type:
Niche Venture
Milestones:
-
2017
Founded
-
2018
Prototype built through Chinese manufacturing partner with $10,000 grant
-
2019
Started Working with USV
-
2020
Won a $10,000 grant to increase production and marketing
-
2020
Production capacity increased in Uganda to 20 per sales cycle.
The Problem
21,000 children die from pneumonia in Uganda each year. Worldwide, the figure is 1.6 million children under-5 dying. Many of these deaths could be prevented with proper access to oxygen in hospitals.
Unfortunately, oxygen tanks are scarce and slow to be refilled. Therefore, hospitals either cannot treat most patient or they attach multiple patients to one tank through makeshift wiring of tubes.
However, the makeshift division of the oxygen to each patient is unregulated, so patients may be receiving not enough, or too much, oxygen. Moreover, oxygen is often wasted through extra tubes not being used all the time, just compounding the scarcity of the tanks.
The Product
The ShiShi Oxylife splitter is a device which is attached to oxygen tanks to regulate how much oxygen is being used simultaneously by each patient – thereby ensuring patient safety and prolonging the time the oxygen tank can be used for.
This device is manufactured locally to make it affordable for hospitals and easy for regular maintenance.
The Impact
Through the ShiShi Oxylife splitter, many more hospitals will be able to provide safe levels of oxygen to its patients, preventing hundred of deaths.
The Future
Shishi is currently working to scale up sales to hospitals around Uganda. They will then reach out to facilities around East Africa, and then beyond.
The team’s wider vision is to increase locally made medical technologies /products. This will involve establishing a fully-fledged ISO accredited manufacturing and assembly facility in Uganda.