Game Changer Mask

Game Changer Mask

17years old, Digantika Bose, from Memari, Purba (East), West Bangal, has come up with an ‘Air providing and Virus Destroying Mask’. She has submitted this Game Changer Mask design in the Challenge Covid-19 Competition (C3), held by the ‘National Innovation Foundation’ (NIF). Digantika worked and developed this device in just 7days. She has always being a science and technology enthusiast. When the nationwide lockdown was announced, and schools were closed. So she decided to spend her time in developing a solution that would help patients and also medical professionals.

The mask is divided into two parts. The first part has two one-way valves and the second part has two reservoir-containers. During inhalation, dust particles and harmful elements are trapped in water particles and the lipid proteins of the virus are destroyed. A one-way valve enables clean air to enter the patient’s lungs. When a patient exhales again, the air exits through another one-way valve and enters another reservoir-container in which the lipid protein of the virus is broken down to destroy it. After series of tests, the Ministry of Science and Technology has asked for her permission to take forward her innovation in the war against the virus.