Baby Incubators from Old Car Parts

An improbable but extremely interesting and valuable innovation for emerging markets where medical supplies are hard to come by but Toyota 4Runners are plentiful:

The heat source is a pair of headlights. A car door alarm signals emergencies. An auto air filter and fan provide climate control.

But this contraption has nothing to do with transportation. It is a sturdy, low-cost incubator, designed to keep vulnerable newborns warm during the first fragile days of life.

Unlike the notoriously high-maintenance incubators found in neonatal intensive care units in the United States, it is easily repaired, because all of its operational parts come from cars.

And while incubators can cost $40,000 or more, this one can be built for less than $1,000.

And it tackles the main problem that has plagued all those donated incubators over the years: it works, is reliable, and can be repaired locally with local parts.

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Comments

[Air Intake]

interesting and valuable innovation for emerging markets where medical supplies are hard to come by but Toyota 4Runners are plentiful:

[Chief Enterprises | America's provider]

Amazing thing when automobile inventions are used for the science. The parts are very much equal to the incubators, so that it can be got from used old cars.

Chief Enterprises | America's provider of Bosch Relays, Solenoids, Connectors, and Diodes