In June of 2020, when Pakistan experienced its highest number of Covid-19 cases, the country of over 220 million was also made to realise the horrifying lack of ventilators in its healthcare system. According to the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Biomedical Engineer, Areeba Shakeel Ahmed, she and her team found it more viable to work with an existing mechanism, than to produce something entirely new. Shakeel along with her project member Muhammad Akbar Baig, was able to produce a device they called ResQvent (a long-lasting attachment, which fits onto a standard AMBU (Artificial Manual Breathing Unit) bag and automates compression and air-supply). The prototype, which costs less than Rs30,000 to manufacture, has been produced under AKUH’s Critical Creative Innovative Thinking Forum.