Can Pinoy invention zap Ebola?

MANILA, Philippines - A locally developed machine that taps electrical current to promote general health and well-being and fight all kinds of diseases may just be able to neutralize killer viruses, including the current global scourge, the Ebola virus.

Danny Orijuela, inventor of the electrotherapy device, told The STAR yesterday he was offering his invention as a possible remedy to alleviate, if not treat, the dreaded virus.

Orijuela is a member of the Filipino Inventors Society
Producers Cooperative (FISPC). He has applied for a patent and certification with the Food and Drug Administration for his machine.

He credits his device for saving the life of his daughter years ago.

“I have treated a dengue fever case that was then in the critical level or the bleeding stage. And this was a case that involved no less than my own daughter, Jennylyn Domondon Orijuela, who now lives in Florida,” Orijuela said.

He also credited his device for treating a leptospirosis case that was also in critical stage.

“If you will consider that it was able to treat the two diseases, we may be able to kill the Ebola virus, as long as it is still in the early stages or the symptomatic stage when there’s just fever and body pains,” he said.

“If it’s worse than this, it’s possible that the electrotheraphy device could not do anything anymore,” he added.

He said that all viruses are weak when in the initial stage and negative ions can easily kill the virus.

“Nothing can beat electricity in killing a virus and I have tested this for more than 30 years,” he said.

Orijuela’s electrotherapy device is being positioned as a “miracle” new technology that promises to correct what is wrong with the human body.

The breakthrough device will be one of the showcase products of the FISPC’s member-inventors when they celebrate National Inventors Week (NIW) starting this Thursday until Sunday.

The device is described as a multi-functional machine that can stimulate and rebuild the natural electric field in a human body.

Orijuela said most ailments are the result of an imbalance in the body’s electrical field, usually due to a drop in supply of anions or negatively charged ions.

Orijuela’s device aims to correct this imbalance by bombarding the body with anions or negative ions until the right balance is achieved.

When this is accomplished, the human body will go back to its normal functioning self, free of any disease, according to him.

Orijuela said people suffering from high blood pressure, including stroke victims and those who are undergoing dialysis, have asked him for help and have been happy with the results.

The NIW 2014 celebrations organized by the FISPC will have two locations – Fishermall along Quezon Avenue and the Filipino Inventors’ Society Cooperative display room at the ground floor of the Delta building at the corner of Quezon Avenue and West Avenue in Quezon City.

The device will be made available for trial at the Fishermall during NIW Week.

Ebola threat discussed

Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) said the Philippines should be well prepared should there be cases of Ebola virus in the country.

The threat of Ebola in Asia, particularly in the Philippines, was one of the issues raised during a leaders’ forum yesterday hosted by the UNISDR and Hans Sy, a member of the agency’s private sector advisory group and president of SM Prime Holdings Inc., at the SMX Convention Center at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City.

The Top Leaders Forum is an annual gathering of top-level executives and leaders in the country’s private sector to discuss topics, challenges and action plans to create a holistic disaster risk reduction campaign.

More than 130 government officials and top businessmen from all industries attended the forum.

Margareta Wahlstrom, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction and who presided over the forum, said the threat of Ebola affects all countries in the world because it’s a public health hazard that is hard to contain.

“It is a biological hazard. It is a public health threat which cannot be contained within the national borders because it travels with people,” she said, adding that people in Asia should not feel complacent about the virus because it can also happen here.

She said educating the people about the disease is the first step towards preparedness. – With Perseus Echeminada