Ligand Innovation Global is a social enterprise, committed to creating innovative solutions with far-reaching impact. Our resuscitator, the VitaCaeli, as the epitome of social innovation is a device poised to save millions of lives around the world, and a great investment opportunity for ‘impact & social-conscious’ investors. Our long-term vision is “to have the VitaCaeli on every emergency tray in the world.”
Through market-aware product-innovation, we aim to tackle bold problems in health care, create jobs and enhance productivity of health care workers. By blending unique local and global perspectives with best-in-class innovative product development, Ligand is making critical-care medical equipment accessible at scale.
The VitaCaeli was specifically designed for use in developing countries to improve the quality of resuscitation care. It is well documented in literature that health workers have had to indefinitely use breathing bags to ventilate patients. The VitaCaeli automates this process, delivers controlled breaths in a more effective and efficient manner, releasing medical staff to attend to other patient needs, with tidal volume control, respiratory rate control, Inspiratory:Expiratory ratio settings with Pressure alarms.
This innovation has also been identified by the U.S Department of Defence, as a potential affordable alternative ventilator, in the treatment of lung paralysis from Botulinum neurotoxin, BoNT.
Hundreds of thousands of lives are lost annually, due to lack of ventilators, ultra-expensive and rare intensive care beds.
As the data reveals, countries and regions with the poorest populations, and lowest intensive care beds, also have the highest rates of neonatal, infant, under-5 as well as adult morbidity and mortality rates.
The VitaCaeli has been described as "an important life-saver, given the prevailing circumstances in resource-limited environments, and will significantly reduce infant and adult mortality rates from developing countries".
Ligand Innovation Global is a Canadian Social Enterprise, committed to creating innovative solutions with far-reaching impact.
Ligand Innovation Global has identified the VitaCaeli, as the epitome of social innovation: a device poised to save millions of lives around the world, and a great investment opportunity for 'impact & social-conscious' investors.
Our long-term vision is "to have the VitaCaeli on every emergency tray in the world"
