KAMPALA| A Ugandan scientist has won the ‘Official World Record’ for building the world’s largest and most sophisticated baby incubator.
The record for Uganda has been won by Christopher Matovu Nsamba, a Ugandan scientist, who with the help of the Ministry of Health, built the World’s Largest Baby Incubator, one of the most sophisticated technologies ever built by humanity.
The win was announced in the hours of the morning and is a huge boost not only to the country’s image but the innovation capacity of Ugandan scientists supported by the ministry.
Mr. Nsamba’s cause has saved thousands of critically ill Babies and most especially in Mukono District where his innovation has been tested.
In a statement released on www.officialworldrecord.com, the management announced:
“This is therefore to officially inform the World that Mr. Christopher Matovu Nsamba holds this World record for building the WORLD’S LARGEST BABY INCUBATOR The Official World Record hereby recognizes and honors Mr. Christopher Matovu Nsamba for his great contribution towards humanity. Thank you Mr. Nsamba, May The Highest One Always Guide Your Path “Each Life Saved Is Worthy A Billion Words.”
Upon receiving his award certificate, Mr. Nsamba praised the ministry especially the Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine for the support.
In a WhatsApp message to MediaScape News, Dr Diana just said: “Here’s the official record in our hands. We thank God.”
In a tweet later on, Dr Diana rallied the nation to support him: “@DianaAtwine: Mr Nsamba has been consistent in all that he does to contribute to humanity. The incubators he built have been recognized world over. He needs to be supported to do more.”
About ‘Official World Record’
The ‘Official World Record Association’ was created as a NGO organization to promote, verify, catalog and register world records.
Based in Spain, its authorized members check, verify and admit the authenticity of the world record applications, and finally register the world records.
Elaborate the rules and regulations to set or to break the world records. The association promotes world records among non-profit organizations, NGO’s, for charitable purposes, and for people with disabilities or with social problems.
The Official World Record then acts as a basic tool to make known social causes, or promotion to raise funds for entities aimed at providing services to the community.
It helps to promote inclusive world records, where no one is excluded from being able to star in a world record due to having any type of disability or psychic or physical problem.
“Making a record is breaking the limits of people to reach a yearning for collective improvement for the human condition, and everyone is able to go further and overcome their limits,” the management says.
Some of the major principles of the record are to promote and increase the knowledge of unique or Exclusive things in the world, increase the knowledge of unique or Exclusive things in the world, encourage what each person can contribute to the rest of mankind and boost what each person can contribute to the rest of mankind.
All of these goals are achieved through activities such as: Tracking and contacts through social networks or web pages, or meetings with other entities or organizations regarding the promotion.
With regard to the verification, the verdict is achieved through different processes and instruments of measures, approved certificates and other convenient means to verify the fact or the act itself.
World records won before:
Some of the records awarded before include the most powerful computer, most total knee replacements performed with minimal invasive surgery, electric car to reach 1 million kilometers won by Tesla, largest museum in the world, most powerful wind generator, oldest church in the world that remains submerged in water, longest and busiest passenger bus, biggest truck, largest commercial aircraft, among others.
Who is Christopher Nsamba?
His official twitter handle @ceo_Nsamba says Christopher Nsamba is the Director African Space Research Programme and an Award Winner of Best Space Scientist Africa 2013.
A quick search further presents a man who has been consistent in the past 12 years about innovation and breaking through the impossible, almost single handedly with no help from a country that is always cautious about innovative disruptors.
While profiling him in 2014, The Observer newspaper predicted that “the year 2014 could be filled with technological innovation especially in the space industry because four years earlier, a story about Ugandans making an aircraft in Ntinda, a Kampala suburb, was quickly dismissed as a joke. But that didn’t diminish the enthusiasm of the young innovators.”
The prediction didn’t come to pass. Nevertheless, the unknown young men soldiered on led by a one Captain Chris Matovu Nsamba.
“They have a bigger dream of starting what they call the African Space Research Programme (ASRP). Last week, Nsamba and company shocked Ugandans when they unveiled a drone, an unmanned aerial vehicle, which they manufactured here in Uganda,” wrote The Observer.
The paper added: “For the doubting ‘Thomases’, the “Drone on Dake”, as it is called, is on display at the Ugandan museum, and it has caught the attention of big shots in government, including Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi.”
“It has a flight time of about seven hours; the faster you fly, the less flight hours you will attain before refill. It is non-radar detectable at close range operations between the ground controller and air radar,” Nsamba told the newspaper.
“If Uganda needs these gadgets for the well-being of our country, then it will be a pleasure serving our country with more pieces…,” Nsamba said.
But it seems no one listened.
Nsamba said each drone would cost about Shs 3.5 billion. According to Nsamba, ASRP also intended to be the first to release the first space drone in the world.
“Uganda doesn’t have these gadgets. As a country, we need to advance in space technology because space outreach is the key to superiority of any nation,” Nsamba said.
The Observer reported then that ASRP’s first project was in 2009 when the Ntinda-based company manufactured an aircraft called the African Skyhawk, which has since been put on hold because of financial constraints. It was meant to be a high flyer, to scan meteorites and asteroids from space using a radio telescope. The plane was advanced with a pressurized cabin, anti-missile, around 120 kilogrammes of fuel and auto-balance systems. In 2011, ASRP tested the space rocket at Kimaka airstrip in Jinja at a function presided over by the vice president. This rocket, according to Nsamba, managed to cross the clouds in under five seconds at a speed ranging over 274km/h.
In future, the Observer reports, ASRP hoped to release a craft with hydraulic extract and retract wings, carrying one person on board powered by rocketry.
“We are living with people who are advanced; they can go into space, the moon and Mars. We are being left behind. The reason why we have had a history of being enslaved and colonised is precisely because of lagging behind in science,” said Mbabazi, who was mesmerized by ASRP’s innovations.
Fast Forward:
On Feb 27, 2019, A frustrated Nsamba tweeted:
“I made this baby incubator in UG, it has saved 243 critically ill babies at Mukono Health 4. The Ministry-Health launched it but the Science ministry lied to parliament in this policy statement (Ed- See attached screenshot) that they funded/supported me to build it, not even a coin. I did this on my own. I was denied,” he wrote.
He further complained that he was currently building the biggest advanced baby incubator in the world, which carries 10 babies, and fixes damaged brain cells.
“I am doing this on my own without a Godfather and Godmother, and the Ministry of Science INNOVATION FUND is busy funding alcohol, juice, flour, they denied me any assistance,” he tweeted.
How it was made:
Mr Nsamba says to view news clips of this first African made incubator in Uganda, please visit: http://africanscientist.org/home/page.php?46.
The organization’s website is: http://africanscientist.org.