DAGUPAN CITY — A group of young electronic engineers based in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija are offering to build disinfection chambers for free to assist in the fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
“By providing people disinfecting chambers, we could lessen the chances of the virus from spreading,” Alvin Escobar, co-owner of the Elektronik Hub, said in an interview Wednesday via Facebook messenger.
Escobar, along with Marc Jerome Queddeng and Nathan Jay Escobar, have agreed to build the chambers free of charge as long as materials will be provided.
While the engineers may be capable of building it, they lack the resources to do so, he said.
“Because of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, hardware shops are closed. We can’t make the chamber if there are no materials. We need someone to provide us,” he added.
Escobar said these include atomizing nozzle, which could be purchased online, water pump with a high discharge volume, hose, and fittings.
Once the materials are all available, the chamber would be completed in one or two days, he said.
The chambers may be placed along the entrances and exit passageways of facilities and buildings.
The company, a prominent service provider of electronic components and Arduino-based devices and consultations, assured quality chambers once built, as it has experts in robotics, sensors and home automation systems.
Escobar underscored the need for these spaces to protect frontliners and many others.
“We are offering our services for free, this is the least we could do to help our frontliners and everyone in fighting the spread of the Covid-19,” Escobar added. (PNA)
