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• Team develops bubble helmet to help treat patients with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 15:47

  

  A team of doctors, led by Dr Ganapathi, from the Mangala Hospital, developed an alternative to the typical oxygen masks: a bubble helmet designed to aid in the treatment of patients with Covid-19. The helmets are transparent and airtight, sealed through a ...

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• Tracking COVID19 in Syrian Refugees

  Solution Shared by aralsurmeli on 2020-08-11 18:37

  

  HERA is a digital health platform that was created to help Syrian refugees living in Turkey access critical prenatal care and childhood vaccinations. In March 2020, in response to the changing needs and realities of the global community, we decided to ...

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• Website offers free tools to prevent burnout of people working from home during the pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-12-16 14:19

  

  Due to the Covid-19, many people all around the world had to adjust to a new reality of working from home. Working Den was created to help remote workers create a healthier, motivating and sustainable work environment. The website offers a range of free ...

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• Cultural institutions read poetry to alleviate people’s day

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-22 17:35

  

  In Lisbon, workers from Casa Fernando Pessoa and from EGEAC (Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural, E.M.) started the initiative ‘Readings to the Ear’ to maintain the connection between Casa Fernando Pessoa and the public during COVID-19 ...

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• Dad invents a coronavirus safety capsule for babies

  Solution Shared by Diogo Nunes on 2021-08-24 20:13

  

  With the appearance of the new coronavirus, humanity was forced to adapt to a new reality. In China, the new coronavirus has infected more than 81,000 people and claimed at least 3259 lives. Bai Ying, Chinese father of a newborn, afraid that the baby ...

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• NASA develops vibrating necklace to help people avoid touching their faces

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 18:32

  

  A small team of three, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, has developed a pendant designed to help people avoid touching their face. This invention was created amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, following the World Health Organization’s recommendation that people ...

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• Movement provides tablets for hospitalized patients to communicate with their families

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-27 18:14

  

  To combat the isolation of hospitalized patients, unable to receive visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic, a movement in Portugal was created to provide the patients with a means of communicating with their loved-ones. The movement aims to donate 2500 ...

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• International team develops a cheap ventilator with off-the-shelf components

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 17:19

  

  The 26 physicists of the DarkSide experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, designed a new mechanical ventilator they hope to mass produce quickly and cheaply with off-the-shelf components. The new design has been spearheaded by Cristiano ...

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• Multi-disciplinary team creates healthcare units from converted shipping containers

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-04 18:41

  

  Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, two designers and architects from Italy, created CURA- Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments. CURA are healthcare pods created through the conversion of shipping containers. These pods where created as emergency healthcare ...

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• Facebook group keeps people with disabilities connected during the Covid-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-13 18:23

  

  Many severely disabled people rely on the help of other to perform their daily life activities. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the population being advised to stay home and practice social distancing, people with disabilities had to face the ...

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