How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
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How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
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#2The Economist article is paywalled for me, but BBC news has a piece at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40498395 that describes the shampoo bottle hack.
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#3>>The hospital now deploys it routinely and the number of children who die there from pneumonia has fallen by three-quarters. That means the survival rate in the Dhaka Hospital is today almost on a par with that of children treated in rich-world facilities, using conventional ventilators.
Innovation like this is facilitated by the lack of medical device regulations in Bangladesh.
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#4>>The hospital now deploys it routinely and the number of children who die there from pneumonia has fallen by three-quarters. That means the survival rate in the Dhaka Hospital is today almost on a par with that of children treated in rich-world facilities, using conventional ventilators. Innovation like this is facilitated by the lack of medical device regulations in Bangladesh.
More like it was facilitated by the need.
Had they had as low fatality rate as developed countries, I doubt weak regulation would have spurred innovation.
Which is supported by the fact that fatality rates now almost match developed countries. If it was the weak regulation that spurred innovation, the rate should continue to fall.
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#5> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation.
Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.
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#6Looking this up led me to Open Pediatrics, a lovely idea:
https://www.openpediatrics.org
A video going into more of the detail, on reflection the big idea seems to be the air pressure oscillations
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#7> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation. Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.
They way English rifles through the pockets of other languages looking for vocabulary, just start using it and see if it sticks. :)
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#8> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation. Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.
Eh, I tend to translate jugaad to hack.
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#9The Economist article is paywalled for me, but BBC news has a piece at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40498395 that describes the shampoo bottle hack.
Adding it to Pocket, then lets you read it.
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#10What a nice story about keeping things simple.
Also, damn, neonatology must be brutal to work in at times.