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December 19, 2010
In January 2010, the solar autoclave was recognized by the WHO’s Call for Innovative Technologies. This competition sought to identify accessible and affordable technologies that were developed to address health problems and improve the quality of life for individuals in low-income and developing countries.
In September, the World Health Organization hosted their First Global Forum on Medical Devices in Bangkok, Thailand. Conference participants included winners from the Call for Innovative Technologies, policy makers, researchers, and clinicians. I had the chance to attend this event on behalf of Salud del Sol, Inc.; Innovations in International Health at MIT; and the solar autoclave research team. It was an incredible conference to be a part of and an honor for the solar autoclave to be recognized among such creative technologies as the remote anemia monitoring system from Biosense and Mark Zimmerman from Nepal, who is developing a simplified anesthesia unit for remote settings.
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December 19, 2010
Over this past Thanksgiving break, Lauren Dokes, Erin Sutton, and I had the privilege of traveling to Nicaragua to further the development of the autoclave. We flew into Managua on Wednesday night, and got to our host families’ houses at about midnight local time.
On Thanksgiving, we met up with Susan Kinne, director of Grupo Fenix, an organization committed to the development of solar technologies in the country. Susan showed us around the neighborhood we were staying in and then brought us to the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniera (UNI). We were able to meet with Gunther Klatte and other students at the UNI to discuss joint research opportunities between the UNI and Salud del Sol.
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