An innovative way to take care of
premature babies in places with inadequate medical care has won a young
inventor $45,000 and recognition from the James Dyson Foundation. The
Dyson Award, given yearly to young designers looking to solve serious
problems, went this year to James Roberts and his project, "Mom."
Roberts was looking
specifically at the problem of children born in refugee camps. Poor
living conditions and a lack of medical facilities mean a great number
of children are born in camps every year — 150,000, by Roberts'
estimate, of which 27,500 will die from lack of incubation.
The problem, apart from
the wars creating such inhumane circumstances, is that incubators are
bulky and expensive — tens of thousands of dollars, and big enough
they'd have to be trucked out to camps.
"The Western world takes
incubators for granted," said James Dyson, founder of the foundation
and company that bear his name, in a news release. "We don't think about
how their inefficient design makes them unusable in developing
countries and disaster zones."
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