药物dispensing innovation wins engineering prize

The innovator of a smart locker system designed to dispense药物对于不到36秒的患者而言，为2019年非洲工程创新奖获得了奖项。

Publichealth机构受到资源约束，医护人员不知所措，导致他们无法更快地参加患者。

据世卫组织称，仅南非就有近500万患者接受抗逆转录病毒治疗的患者，并每月收集重新填充。

一位31岁的南非人Neo Hutiri说，收集慢性药物的患者在公共卫生中心等待将近四个小时engineerwho invented the innovation called Pelebox.

“Pelebox takes pressure off medical teams and gives patients on chronic medicines valuable time back.”

Neo Hutiri, Pelebox

Hutiri解释说：“ Pelebox承受了医疗团队的压力，并使患者在慢性药物上的宝贵时间恢复了宝贵的时间，以确保收集过程得到跟踪和审核。”“这是我们的最高认可邮票创新本可以希望的。作为一名工程师，建立具有社会意识的解决方案对我来说很重要，这个奖项是我们朝着正确的方向推动的推动。”

Hutiri received the first prize of £25,000 (about US$31,000) from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the founder of the competition.

“Pelebox will improve healthcare for everyone using and working in a severely strained public healthcare system,” adds John Lazar, one of the competition’s judges, in a statement released this month (4 June) by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

According to Hutiri, his team started working on the project in 2015 but the first unit became operational in 2017 and was pilot-tested in 2018.

“Each Pelebox unit has 72-99 doors and can serve 1,200 patients per month,” Hutiri says.

The innovation, according to Hutiri, shows that science in Africa can now drive a digitally connected Africa particularly to inspire young people by elevating the standards of applied science and how they can shape innovations.

患者dhliwayo-chiunzi，一个biotechnologist在津巴布韦的哈拉雷理工学院scidev.netPelebox是必需的创新，它在很大程度上纳入了患者隐私的方面。

Dhliwayo-Chiunzi解释说：“您意识到Pel​​ebox的运行方式就像那些食品分配器机器一样，因此非常友好。”

She advises patients using the Pelebox to access their medications at designated times to ensure that they take their medicines as expected.

Hutiri tellsscidev.net该六个pelebox单元已在南非的公立医院安装，预计将在年底之前通过与南非的合同进行42个单位。government。

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.