Projects
Neonatal scales
Child mortality is a huge problem globally with The United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) 2019, suggesting that 5.3 million children under the age of five died in 2019. Newborn deaths account for 47% of all deaths in children aged under 5 globally. Healthcare Professionals, and parents, particularly in rural Africa, often do not have access to reliable scales and, at worst, lack access to scales completely. Poor access to scales, and the inability to accurately measure and monitor the weight of babies compromises neonatal health, life chances, and ultimately their survival. At ROOTS we are working with our partners in Ghana (African Foundation for Premature babies and Neonatal Care [AFPNC]) to enable us to incorporate a human-centred approach to the design and development of affordable, reliable, and user-friendly scales for use with neonates and infants. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE
Uncovering unmet medical device needs
In September 2020, travel permitting, we will visit clinics in low-resource settings in order to truly understand the medical device unmet needs in newborn, maternal, reproductive and child health, and see devices being used first-hand.
If you are interested in helping fund this project, or would simply like to find out more, please contact us alper@roots-medtech.org
ROOTS Woodland Festival Summer 2021
ROOTS Medtech will be hosting a family music festival with camping in 2021 (Cambridge, UK). All money raised will go directly towards the design and development of our much needed medical devices for low- and middle- income countries. If you would like to sponsor the festival, have any contacts with bands who might wish to donate their time to a good cause or volunteer with the planning please don’t hesitate to contact louisa@roots-medtech.org