The social innovator I picked is Hayat Sindi. She is a medical researcher and co-founded Diagnostics for All. It’s her vision that all people will get access to medical treatment even those who are hard to reach geographically and are not connected to any infrastructure. Therefore she invented diagnostic tools micro-fabricated in paper. This innovation is cheap, portable, safe and easy to use. One drop of blood is enough to get a instant diagnosis. The advantage is a reduction of waiting time because there is no need to send the samples to laboratory to get a diagnose. With this invention people of developing countries are also able to get the best medical treatment. I agree with Hayat Sindi that telemedicine will play an important role for health care in future.This method opens new possibilities e.g. arranging far distant surgeries, in which the specialist attends via screen or doctors will be able to follow the vital signs of their patients with the help of technology.With telemedicine, western medicine and the medicine of developing countries can be connected. More people can be reached and are able to get a better medical treatment. Therefore I chose Hayat Sindi as my favourite social innovator,because I think that her research innovations are important and have a lot of future potential to help people.
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