In today’s show Melissa Beard discusses her passion, a non-profit organization established in 2001 by Doctors Bob Malkin and Mohammad Kiani, with the aim of improving the technological infrastructure in hospitals in the developing world and ensuring access to modern health care. Today, Engineering World Health (EWH) is the largest organization in the world dedicated to post donation medical equipment repair, maintenance, and training. Melissa describes the socio-financial impact derived from the organization’s programs in African countries. EWH’s programs provide an on-the-job educational and working forum for engineering students to travel abroad and provide technology solutions in parts of the world where teaching is not available to the masses. You will learn how low cost / low tech solutions can benefit technicians and patients in these resource-poor countries. Listen as Melissa describes how the students can derive highly ingenious solutions even from the most basic of available resources, such as re-tooling a beer bottle lid into a heart-monitor solution.
