The transmission of serious infections in contaminated blood like HIV and hepatitis is being fought worldwide and no one is more at the forefront of the battle than Ovik Mkrtchyan, founder of New Medical Technologies.

Along with scientists at the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (UzNIIEMIZ), New Medical Technologies has been developing and putting on the market a range of methods for detecting viruses in blood and determining their potential threat to an individual’s health.

Ovik Mkrtchyan is also proud to announce that his company has come up with a method for neutralising viruses in RNA and DNA – including the killer pandemic virus COVID-19. Other prevalent viruses the teams have tackled are Hepatitis B, C and HIV, the influenza virus, and in the Ebola group, hemorrhagic fever which attacks the lymph glands.

Safety of blood donorship

Explains Ovik Mkrtchyan: “Such breakthroughs are a huge step to ensure healthy blood on the donor market, particularly for patients receiving that donated blood. New Medical Technologies has been particularly successful in discovering and assessing viruses in the T-lymphotropic category, associated with leukaemia.

A keen advocate of new technology, Ovik Mkrtchyan continues: “We developed an algorithm for examining donated blood, which was as much through employing the best technology than just medical science. The two came together in creating this modern method for determining life-threatening viruses which has benefits for the people worldwide.”

There are over 100 million blood donations made each year across the planet. It’s well recognised that blood transfusions and blood products save millions of lives annually. As a matter of fact, a single blood donation could save as many as 3 lives and usually, a single blood donation equals around 0,5 litres of blood. If the blood donation is safe for transfusion, in that case, it can save many lives and be used in different emergency situations, not to mention its use in advanced medical and surgical procedures. The demand for blood grows since it is needed in all health care facilities to meet the urgent need for patients facing trauma and other lifesaving procedures. Clean blood saves millions of lives each year. Recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO) state that all blood donations should be screened for infections before being issued for patient use. Screening for such diseases as HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and syphilis should be mandatory.

Improved sterilising process

An additional area of new innovations in medicine cited by Ovik Mkrtchyan, which has been actively pursued by New Medical Technologies, is in the sanitation of surgical tools and other items as well as in the cleansing of critical surface areas in hospitals and clinics.

The use of heat and strong chemicals to sterilise certain instruments just isn’t effective enough like those used in dentistry, invasive surgery, eye operations, gynaecology and cosmetology practices. There’s a risk the patient could be inflicted with blood-borne diseases, or infected with virus-ridden RNA and DNA. To counteract these dangers, New Medical Technologies has come up with a disinfection method using methylene blue (an organic chloride salt) as a sterilising agent.

While this photodynamic method has been used for a long time in medicine for the treatment of diseases it wasn’t until New Medical Technologies improved on the sterilising process that it has now become widely used in places like Germany, France and the United States. Sterilizing equipment is a vital element of modern medical care since patients come in contact with surgical tools, syringes and bandages all the time. “We’re very proud to have taken this 100% effective sterilising method to a broader reach across the planet in the knowledge that it is safeguarding patients’ lives day in, day out,” says Ovik Mkrtchyan.

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