The aid group, iLab Haiti, is working with Haiti Communitere in Haiti prototyping umbilical cord clamp for use in a local hospital that has severally limited supplies. Doctors were using their surgical gloves to tie off the umbilical cord leaving the doctors with our gloves while delivering babies from mothers who sometimes had AIDS. Using Makerbot machines and teaching locals to use free 3D design software Haitians are creating their own tools for medicine and other uses. They are using ABS plastic, the kind of plastic used in Lego building blocks to prototype medical tools and devices. You can listen to the full story from NPR by clicking here.
