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hungfingtonpost – Every year, more than three million babies die in their first month of life. Most of these deaths could be prevented if appropriate technologies were available in the hospitals of the world’s poorest countries.
Nga Tuyet Trang, the founder of Medical Technology Transfer and Services, orMTTS, is trying to make this happen.
After spending a year studying in Denmark in 2003, Nga returned home to Vietnam imagining a world where every infant, no matter where they were born, had an equal chance for a healthy life. Assembling an international team of specialists in biomedicine, mechanics, electronics and industrial design, she tasked them with adapting developed world medical equipment and practices to meet the needs of treating the most common problems affecting newborn babies at hospitals and clinics in developing countries. Tiếp tục đọc “The Other Entrepreneurs: Giving Ailing Newborns a Fighting Chance From Vietnam”