The New York Times Magazine offers up a advantageous dosage of inspiration this weekend with the adventure of David Walmer, a apostate doctor who's been extenuative lives in Haiti. If he accomplished a few years ago how cervical blight was killing abounding of his patients, Walmer absitively to get creative about analytic the problem. Oddly enough, Walmart was allotment of the solution.
Aptly labelled by The Times as "The MacGyver Cure for Cancer," Walmer's apparatus is now accepted as the CerviScope. It's a cheap, carriageable adaptation of a colposcope that enables doctors to appraise a woman's cervix for signs of cancer. However, until Walmer came along, these accessories were too big-ticket and appropriate electricity, both accord breakers for a medical accessory to be applicable in the developing world.
What's a acceptable band-aid if things are too expensive? Walmart, of course—or at atomic a faculty on Walmart-enabled ingenuity. Walmer says that his aboriginal prototypes started with "a halogen headlamp [found] at a bike boutique and a blooming clarify [found] at a camera store." One of Walmer's advance engineers from Duke took it a date added by accretion the device's deepening admiral application "the lenses from a $10 set of binoculars bought at Walmart" forth with "a brace of $16 battery-powered LEDs."
Walmer's nonprofit, Family Health Ministries, is still perfecting the CerviScopes design and are accepting abutting to bringing the amount beneath $750, at which point they anticipate it'll be applicable in countries like Haiti. It's absurd the locations for the assembly run will appear from Walmart, even the prototypes are allowance save lives. MacGyver had to alpha somewhere, right? [NYTM]
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