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Our founder, Reece Stevens was recently published in Texas Engineer. His article is called "Doing a World of Good." Thanks for the shout-out The University of Texas at Austin!

Doing a World of Good | Texas Engineer Doing a World of Good For one eye-opening month during college, biomedical engineering student Reece Stevens joined the staff of a remote hospital in Rwanda, where he saw nurses struggling to care for hundreds of patients with only a handful of patient monitors. From that point forward, Stevens beca...

Developing world hospitals face a staggering amount of challenges, but one of the most difficult is a lack of proper medical equipment:

- Financial constraints prevent hospitals from purchasing most equipment
- On average, donated equipment makes up 95% of a developing world hospital's inventory
- Of the equipment that is donated, 39% is broken upon arrival and 98% is nonfunctional after five years*

These problems are primarily due to the fact that the donated medical devices are not designed to operate in the demanding and often unpredictable environment of the developing world. As a result, millions of dollars in well-intended aid money and international relief efforts go to waste and gather dust in storage closets around the world. But this problem can be changed.

*This picture is of a broken CT scanner in a hospital in Malawi.