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Paul Alexander is one of the last people living in an iron lung after he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. He has been using the iron lung for over 70 years and has become an advocate for polio awareness and the importance of vaccines.
The iron lung, also known as a negative pressure ventilator, is a large horizontal cylinder designed to stimulate breathing in patients who have lost control of their respiratory muscles. The patient's head is exposed outside the cylinder, while the body is sealed inside. Air pressure inside the cylinder is cycled to facilitate inhalation and exhalation.
In the mid-20th century, iron lungs were widely used to treat patients with polio, a highly contagious viral disease that can cause paralysis and respiratory failure. However, with the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s and 1960s, the incidence of polio decreased dramatically, and the use of iron lungs became less common.
Today, there are only a handful of people in the world who still rely on iron lungs for their survival. Paul Alexander is one of them, and his story serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of vaccination and the impact that polio has had on the lives of many people.
@paulinenjoroge@boaz: U MISS the point. I have been Chairman of the TC on edible Oils @KEBS for some years. Once a SPECIFICATION has been set, any product BELOW that, FAILS. If we had EXCESSIVE VIT A, that is a non issue. OTHERWISE, we should not make Vit A a requirement in the std!
@paulinenjoroge People really don't read these documents, they're here just commenting.
The issue at hand is Vitamin A levels. Which is not safety concern actually.
A lower vit A level is till fit for consumption, it is not a healthy risk.
Why can't we grow the yellow maize ourselves?The idea that yellow maize is for animal feed is itself wierd. Yellow maize is full of carotenoid (Vitamin A). Visit Miruka, in Nyamira County. People consume Ugali from Yellow Maize(Nyamora).
How do we IMPORT yellow maize yet government has been boasting of a bumper harvest, ostensibly due to subsidized fertilizer. What is government really communicating?
@HManyora On KIRDI, the Sortex Machines are used in all coffee Mills globally where wet coffee processing is practised. On Sorghum processing: to make beer from Sorghum instead of barley was researched in the wooden offices! To manufacture bread from Sorghum, etc etc Priorities?
@HManyora In the same wooden offices, the predecessor of KIRDI ( the East Africa Industrial Research Organisation- EAIRO) discovered how to separate " rotten" coffee beans ( stinkers) from good ones.The discoverery was used to built Sortex machines( of UK used in all coffee mills
This is indeed disaster. It was totally uncecessary.Operating in wooden structures, l founded the Institute of Packaging ( Kenya)- IOPK, on the platform of which l founded the Barcoding scheme, EAN Kenya and Barcode GS1. As EAIRO,in the same wooden, the principle
@ShortdeckS @HManyora@HManyora , you are a great thinker.Go to most public universities in Kenya. Classrooms look like ghost rooms. There is no furniture. Students have to carry desks from one class to another. I have not been paid for three months KCB is sending my name to CRB.Priorities?
All the farming l am doing today, l first learned from my grandmother Angelina Kerubo, God rest her Soul in Eternal Peace. The University enhanced those basic concepts.
@gabrieloguda Yes he is unique. In my primary school days , you were supposed to know all the capital of each of the world countries viz: Egypt - Cairo; Kenya- Nairobi bla bla. I wish that time had been spent to us about plants and animals. I would be a better farmer today.
@gabrieloguda Yes he is unique. In my primary school days , you were supposed to know all the capital of each of the world countries viz: Egypt - Cairo; Kenya- Nairobi bla bla. I wish that time had been spent to us about plants and animals. I would be a better farmer today.