Cleveland, Ohio - In the Nov-Dec 2015 issue of Today’s Medical Developments I ran an article on how D-Rev, leveraging Siemens’ Stiftung “empowering people. Award”, is helping produce prosthetic knees; changing lives in developing countries.
Apparently it’s caught the attention of the government.
Today, news from The Economic Times talks about how the government is looking at setup up design and manufacturing centers for rehabilitation of the disabled.
According to India’s Science and Technology Secretary Ashutosh Sharma, the ministry is proposing to bring technology, medical institutions, and industry together on a platform through the program. Sharma headed a ministerial team that visited the Jaipur Foot manufacturing center in order to understand the manufacturing process of the prosthetic.
This approach should lead to closer, more collaborative development of prosthetics and other medical devices, and open up the need for more machine tool and manufacturing support because, according to D-Rev’s site, more than 7,350 amputees have been fit with the prosthetic.
Globally there are more than 30 million people needing mobility devices, such as prosthetics and 80% of the world’s amputees don’t have access to modern prosthetics.
With a need this great, there’s a huge, untouched market.