“Shithole” Inventor from Uganda Designs Smart Jacket to Diagnose Pneumonia

President Trump, who rejected a bipartisan deal this afternoon because it admits Africans from “shithole” countries, doesn’t need to worry about Brian Turyabagye immigrating to the U.S.  After studying in his native Uganda, Turyabagye went to Great Britain to advance his studies and career in biomedical engineering. 

Turyabagye was deeply motivated by a misdiagnosis in Africa of a friend’s grandmother’s illness. Doctors treated the seriously ill woman for malaria. Later, they realized she was dying from pneumonia. Too late. The woman died.

He and his team of researchers have developed a biomedical kit for early diagnosis and continuous monitoring of pneumonia patients.

The jacket distinguishes pneumonia’s peculiar symptoms for temperature, breathing rate and sound of the lungs – and eliminates most human error, diagnosing pneumonia at a rate three to four times faster than a doctor.

He named it “Mamaope”, or “mother’s hope” – a reference to the 27,000 children who die of pneumonia in Uganda every year.

Read more in the Guardian, here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/01/medical-smart-jacket-tackles-misdiagnosis-of-pneumonia