Monday, December 14, 2009
If you thought camels were only good at carrying people across deserts, apparently they're also pretty swell at providing mobile healthcare. All they need is a solar powered fridge on their back and some medical goodness to deliever.
For the past decade, Nomadic Communities Trust has been using camels as mobile health clinics in Kenya’s Laikipia and Samburu districts, isolated areas with few roadways. While the camel convoys provide a cost-effective method of traversing the harsh terrain, the group had no way of delivering medicines and vaccines that required refrigeration — until now.
Hit up Inhabitat for more on this project.
Africans are so inventive with new/emerging technology. With cell phones they tech-jumped landlines. Using solar panels to deliver medicine to rural areas is a small example of an innovation that may prove to be another tech-jump emerging. Keep an eye out.
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