An Aid Group is 3D-Printing Medical Supplies in Haiti

It ’s been three days since a monumental temblor ravaged Haiti , and the island nation is still convalesce . One large and pervasive obstruction is a lack of supplies — specifically , medical supplies . So iLab Haiti isexploring how 3D printing can be usedto just make them on the speckle .

The group ’s Ashley Dara just reelect from a head trip to the Haitian capital of Port - gold - Prince . Shetells NPR :

While I was in Haiti last year , a dear friend of mine was running a hospital all by herself with limited resourcefulness . One night she wander up having to birth five babe and they had no umbilical corduroy clinch , so they were using their own rubber gloves , cutting them to bond off the umbilical cords , which meant that they locomote through their rubber gloves and had to then present babies barehanded with women that were HIV - convinced . And all I could think was , wow , if we had a 3 - five hundred pressman , I could ’ve been printing on - demand umbilical cord clamps for you . So now our guys , or our students that we work with , are actually learning how to make very simple medical gimmick .

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properly now , iLab is still in the examination flow with its 3D - impress supply . They ’ve made , for example , roughly four prototypes of an umbilical corduroy clinch using abdominal credit card material . But the mathematical group need to verify the tools are absolutely safe to habituate on humans before they actually , you know , use them on humans .

The arrangement is also trying to 3D - print with different material , such as various fabric and fibre , to make gauze , bags , and so forth . Of naturally , it ’s still in the testing phase , but it ’s always tasteful to see 3-D printing used for very in force and very virtual purposes . Head over toNPRto listen the entire audience . [ NPR ]

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