SRINAGAR: A septuagenarian innovator from the Bandipora district of North Kashmir has been subverting conventional conceptions of rural existence with his outstanding creations.
Muhammad Ismail Mir, also known as “Newton” from Watapora town in the district, has been innovating since his youth and has succeeded in his mission.
Talking to the news agency KNO, Ismail said that he attended classes until the 12th grade, but had to stop due to fiscal struggles at home. However, he has always cherished an enthusiasm for technological inventions.
Ismail said he then joined the ITI after quitting school to gain technical education, but he had to discontinue since he would constantly challenge his professors, and the issue might have reached the authorities, leading him to abandon his ITI studies prematurely.
“In 2019, I created an automated respirator that provides immense aid to critically sick patients. It enables the patient to undertake treatment without needing the assistance of a healthcare worker or anybody to continuously pump the air device to sustain it,” he said.
Ismail declared that the automated respirator was accepted by Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. “I acquired a recognition certificate from Harvard Medical School and a cash prize of Rs 5,000 for constructing this automated respirator model,” he said.
Ismail said that when the second wave of COVID was at its peak and everybody was yearning for oxygen, he crafted a blueprint of an oxygen concentrator. “I established an oxygen concentrator as there was tremendous demand for it due to the COVID pandemic. Thus, I imagined if some company started manufacturing it here, I made a plan.”
Ismail has generated a diversity of electronic prototypes previously as well. His undertakings have been extensively valued, by the public and healthcare professionals.
Ismail experienced the death of his eldest son Dr Jamsheed to Cancer in 2019, but that didn’t stop his inventive nature. Now several friends of his late son have decided to set up an in situ ‘Fab Lab’ worth 5 lac at his residence in Bandipora.
Ismail uttered that he crafted his first invention in 2008 when he fashioned a lantern with a motion sensor with a fire alarm installation.
Ismail recently modified the traditional Kashmiri winter heating gadget, kangri, and augmented its productivity, making it appropriate for use in any kind of weather. He claims it will not merely be limited to winter use but could also be utilized as a cooling system in the summer season.
Ismail is also functioning on a variety of recent inventions. “I am trying my part to benefit society with whatever is practicable. Imagination and creativity are two abilities that are highly esteemed in today’s society and should be admired more,” he declared.
“We have an atmosphere that names invention as madness, but our victory would be in recognising additional outrageous individuals and their outrageousness so that the creativity rebellion can disperse across our nation,” he said. (KNO)
