Want to know if the medical mask I bought is qualified? At home can use a simple method to make a preliminary judgment! On October 19, the Food and Drug Administration of the Autonomous Region launched the 2020 National Medical Device Safety Science Popularization Publicity Week activity in Guangxi to popularize the relevant knowledge of medical devices for the public.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in early 2020, the demand for medical masks, medical oxygen ventilators, Coronavirus reagents and other medical materials has increased sharply, and the public's attention to medical devices has reached a height that has never been seen before. At the event site, a simple experiment on face masks attracted everyone's attention. Professionals cut paper towels into scraps and used a disposable medical mask to approach the pile. Masks seem to have magnetic force, have adsorbed paper. However, by changing another mask for the same operation, the paper scraps were not absorbed.

Fang Zhenwen, head of the passive testing room of Guangxi Medical Device Testing Center, said the method can initially judge whether medical masks are qualified. The medical mask has a layer of melt spray cloth with electrostatic charge, which is filtration through electrostatic adsorption, which is the main mechanism that medical masks can play a protective role. Want to know if the mask you bought is qualified, citizens can make a preliminary judgment at home. If the medical mask purchased does not have the adsorption effect, it is inferior or fake.

Drug supervision personnel remind that if the purchase of unqualified medical devices, rights protection can be carried out from two angles, one is from the perspective of consumer rights and interests protection, the other is from the Angle of damage compensation. As for which way to choose, it depends on whether it is conducive to rights protection and whether it is convenient to choose.

Generally speaking, bought unqualified medical equipment, did not use or cause no harm, can seek a businessman directly to claim for compensation, according to "consumer rights and interests protection law", can get compensation. In the process, seek help from local consumer associations. If the purchase or use of unqualified medical devices and cause injury, we should choose the way of litigation to protect our rights more vigorously with damages.

The important thing is that consumers should keep invoices, such as causing damage to save relevant evidence, such as medical records, invoices, disability reports, etc., it is best to use and cause damage identification report.

It is understood that the 2020 National Medical Device Safety Science Publicity Week was carried out throughout the region on October 19 solstice 25, focusing on the medical devices and emergency approval results for epidemic prevention, the correct use of popular science medical devices, and improving the identification ability of consumers to independently choose and buy medical devices and other aspects.