Donkey Ambulance could be major life-saver

Donkeys are to larn life-savers inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan alongside a novel invention to assist salve the lives of women too their unborn children.

The Donkey Ambulance has been created to assist salve lives inward countries such every bit Afghanistan.

The innovative novel Donkey Ambulance, developed by British non-governmental organisation HealthProm too designer Peter Muckle, aims to minimise delays to accessing healthcare facilities. It provides greater comfort too helps protect both the woman nurture too unborn kid on the journeying from the villages to the wellness centre.

Muckle took items such every bit inflatable camping ground cushions, the armrest from an air bed too component of an inflatable puddle lounger, too stitched them together into a puffy chair that could locomote strapped to a donkey’s back.

HealthProm started its projection to bring down maternal too newborn deaths inward 1 remote, mountainous district inward the N of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan inward 2008.

The blueprint is directly at the testing too evaluation phase, later which it volition locomote reproduced locally past times Afghan artisans for role inward the villages.

Maternal deaths are 10 times higher than the publish of civilians killed inward conflict. Afghanistan has the highest maternal decease charge per unit of measurement inward the world, at 1575 per 100,000 births.

One adult woman inward every 8 dies of pregnancy related causes too 1 inward 4 children dies earlier his or her 5th birthday. The province of affairs is fifty-fifty worse inward remote areas. Research shows that the causes of newborn too maternal deaths tin locomote attributed to a publish of primal factors, including absence of emergency carry to own got women inward labour to wellness centres.

In mountainous regions, bumpy tracks brand motorised or wheeled carry extremely difficult.

Stewart Britten, projection co-ordinator at HealthProm, said: “Afghanistan has in all probability the highest maternal mortality ratio inward the earth too a major constituent inward this is the delay inward seeking a skilled nascency attendant.

“If a low-cost solution industrial plant sustainably, alongside local production using largely locally available materials, nosotros promise that the reduction inward mortality figures volition Pb to its replication inward other parts of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan too other rattling low-income countries alongside like terrain.”

The Donkey Ambulance was showcased at the recent Conference on “Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Developing Countries: Low-cost, frugal applied scientific discipline medical devices” organised past times the Institute of Mechanical Engineering inward London.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that every bit much every bit 3 quarters of all medical devices inward the developing earth range non business office because the vast bulk are built specifically for Western markets.

Expensive too hard to supercede parts, the take away for a constant electricity supply, a lack of trained operators or their unsuitability to crude oil terrain are all factors preventing the role of these devices inward the developing world.

 

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