Saturday, August 15, 2015

Meet the doctor bringing cheap, 3D printed medical devices to Gaza


A doctor working in the Gaza strip has helped develop a 3D printed, 30 cent stethoscope that outperforms the market leader.

Tarek Loubani heads up the Glia project, designed to bring low cost medical devices to Gaza, where he has been working at the Shifa hospital for several years. The various iterations he has engineered, from a loom for weaving gauze to an ear inspecting otoscope, have already been published online, open source, at Github.

By: Liat Clark,

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