Creating the future of medical technology in South Africa – The Mail & Guardian

Creating the future of medical technology in South Africa – The Mail & Guardian

In celebration of World Creativity and Innovation Day on 21 April, I want to begin this piece with something many South Africans experience: the nurse reaches for a blood pressure cuff that does not work. The patient is told to return next week because the X-ray machine is down. The district hospital that received an imported or donated device that no staff member can maintain now has it sitting in a storeroom. These are not isolated incidents o…