Leeda Rashid has seen how Embrace can make a difference in places such as Afghanistan, where she runs HEEDA, a health non-profit.
Q: HOW DID YOU
CONNECT WITH EMBRACE?
A: My husband, who’s
also a physician, and I looked through the technology and some basic research
that was already done at Stanford on the Embrace, and we thought, my goodness,
this is very appropriate for hospitals in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is notorious
for poor grid access. If you’re a hospital that happens to be in a neighborhood
that has a lot of rolling blackouts, you’re not going to be able to use a lot
of the medical technologies out there. Through our nonprofit, we’ve deployed
upwards of 75 to 80 of the warmers [in Afghanistan]. We’re in four of the
largest public-sector hospitals. We’re at a little more than 10,000 uses over
the last three years. We’re now working to do what the minister of health
wants. He says the product needs to go out to rural Afghanistan. That’s where a
lot of the deliveries are happening, and there is virtually no electricity
there.
Q: THE RURAL SETTING
MUST BE EVEN MORE COMPLICATED.
A: Our first step is
to start using them in public ambulances. On a recent trip, I was assessing the
ambulance sites to see if Embrace can be used during delivery between someone’s
home, or from a rural clinic, to the larger, district-level hospitals.
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Learn more about HEEDA: www.heeda.org
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