Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births
Thanks to a friend for passing this along — good ideas come from unlikely sources. A 15 yr old finding a low cost test for pancreatic cancer & in this article, a car mechanic devising a low cost tool for easing vaginal deliveries and potentially reducing rate of Cesarean sections.
Few comments here from readers — Mother is the necessity of invention and this illustrates we should all drink more wine. Cheers Mr. Odón.
The idea came to Jorge Odón as he slept. Somehow, he said, his unconscious made the leap from a YouTube video he had just seen on extracting a lost cork from a wine bottle to the realization that the same parlor trick could save a baby stuck in the birth canal. Mr. Odón, 59, an Argentine car mechanic, built his first prototype in his kitchen, using a glass jar for a womb, his daughter’s doll for the trapped baby, and a fabric bag and sleeve sewn by his wife as his lifesaving device….“This is very exciting,” said Dr. Mario Merialdi, the W.H.O.’s chief coordinator for improving maternal and perinatal health and an early champion of the Odón Device. “This critical moment of life is one in which there’s been very little advancement for years.”
