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A PNEUMONIA-DIAGNOSING JACKET CAN HELP SAVE LIVES IN A MATTER OF MINUTES
“Over 1 month of age, pneumonia is still the largest killer of children anywhere in the world,” says Shamim Ahmad Qazi, a pediatrician who works with the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2015, this figure was close to 1 million — more deaths in children under the age of 5 than malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS combined. “In most cases, it’s difficult to diagnose,” says Qazi, especially in less-developed countries where X-ray equipment isn’t widely available. In Uganda, pneumonia is often mistaken for malaria — the two share common symptoms like fever and cough — but people are quick to assume malaria because the disease has gotten greater publicity in recent years. And yet, according to UNICEF, only 2 cents go toward pneumonia for every health dollar spent globally.
To combat this “forgotten killer of children,” as the WHO calls it, the Ugandan engineers, together with their partner Besufekad Shifferaw, a fellow student from Uganda’s Makerere University, have come up with a new tool to improve diagnoses in young children. The prototype Mama-Ope is a biomedical jacket that measures vital signs that can indicate the presence of pneumonia. Once the jacket is fitted snugly over a child’s chest, it syncs with an app over Bluetooth, and in under two minutes readings flash up indicating the child’s temperature, breathing rate and an assessment of whether the lungs sound normal or not.
To combat this “forgotten killer of children,” as the WHO calls it, the Ugandan engineers, together with their partner Besufekad Shifferaw, a fellow student from Uganda’s Makerere University, have come up with a new tool to improve diagnoses in young children. The prototype Mama-Ope is a biomedical jacket that measures vital signs that can indicate the presence of pneumonia. Once the jacket is fitted snugly over a child’s chest, it syncs with an app over Bluetooth, and in under two minutes readings flash up indicating the child’s temperature, breathing rate and an assessment of whether the lungs sound normal or not.
According to the text, we can state that
I. wearing jackets make kids warmer so they do not get pneumonia.
II. x-ray is a tool which helps diagnosing pneumonia.
III. Aat the age of 5, kids are more affected by malaria than by pneumonia.
IV. the investments to fight pneumonia are short.
V. the use of the jacket is not possible in places like Uganda since they are an undeveloped country.
