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Citizen provides portable sinks so the homeless can wash their hands during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-28 14:20
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Terence Lester was paying attention to the news and the health and safety measures suggested by health authorities and he started to worry about a vulnerable part of the population: the homeless. "All the news reports ...
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Taxi driver creates automatic hand washing system for passengers
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-21 12:33
Joseph Ernest Acquah, a taxi driver from Ghana, developed an innovative way to help the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Following the safety measures recommended by the World Health Organization, especially with regards to frequent had washing, he ...
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9-year-old builds foot operated hand washing system to prevent coronavirus infections
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-16 08:49
Stephen Wamukote is 9-year-old boy from Kenya. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he saw on TV a piece about ways to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and decided to take initiative and build a tool that would help is village stay safe. So, he took ...
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Youth Group creates public hands-free handwashing system
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-26 16:12
Members of the CII-Young Indians from Chennai worked together with two other association to launch the Sugadharam project, to provide the Chennai population with safe stations where people can sanitize their hands. The idea came as a result of the ...
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Young student develops an automatic sanitiser dispenser
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-31 10:52
Siddh Sanghvi, a seven-grade Indian student in the UAE used STEM technology to create a robot that dispenses sanitiser detecting a hand from a 30cm range. He had the idea while after watching a video of people touching the hand sanitiser's bottle to ...
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Inventor designs a 3D printed toothbrush for the oral care of ventilated patients
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 11:27
Dhaval Trivedi designed a 3D printed toothbrush for ventilated patients to be used when disposable products are not available. Good oral care of ICU patients is linked to better survivorship and reduced ventilatory associated pneumonia. Dhaval’s open ...
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Students create Lego robots to help fight against the new coronavirus
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-25 19:07
Students from an elementary school in southern Taiwan came up with an innovative way to encourage kids to wash their hands and fight the spread of the new coronavirus. They created a Lego robot that automatically dispenses an amount of hand sanitizer, so ...
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Scholars and researchers develop a robot to encourage children to wash their hands
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-03 17:34
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham academic and research centre AMMACHI Labs in Kerala in collaboration with Glasgow University in Scotland have developed Pepe, the robot that engages students and encourage them to wash their hands properly. Pepe has been ...
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