Testing equipment for remote areas

Nowadays, thanks to the development of science, it is easier to get medical treatment through the use of sub-clinical devices. However, these devices are expensive, expensive and bulky chemicals difficult to transport to remote areas. Therefore, a handheld device is essential to overcome.

Researchers at Harvard University have successfully built a compact, inexpensive, handy device to serve the poorest areas of the developing world.

Picture: Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard

The device can monitor diabetes, malaria, analyze whether drinking water is contaminated or not ... The results are not only displayed on the device screen but can be connected to mobile phones to Transmission of information to remote doctors for comments. This test device is being tested in practice in India, showing very good results despite the connection only with the old mobile phones, less functional.

This versatile device is called electrochemical analysis at a cost of $ 25 each and compact with a weight of only 57 grams.

Gizmag quotes Professor George Whitesides as saying that the device responds to some of the broadest biomedical analyzes, including blood glucose in diabetes, serum electrolytes, immunoassays.

Its most innovative feature is the ability to communicate, no need for smartphones or tablets but a cheap mobile phone is popular in the poor countryside.