The man is thinking, doing, trying to make the world a better place and so many on here have turned away from their video games and Cheetos to do nothing but explain why it will not work.
Amazing. The man is thinking, doing, trying to make the world a better place and so many on here have turned away from their video games and Cheetos to do nothing but explain why it will not work. Pathetic.
@marsCubed Interested in your comment. Does that mean you would be happy if the cutlery in a restaurant was not washed from the previous customer if you had 10 cents knocked off the bill?
Drugs are more expensive than syringes so the patients pay for a full dose.
I do not doubt your motives and the efficacy of removing reusable syringes from the equation, it just seems that reusable syringes would be sourced by those with the bad practices. Of course it will make some difference, but i wonder how much, even small cost increases seem to drive the problem.
it is more criticism than rebuke. good luck to you.
@Mishkafofer Uh huh...with the US going around with its big stick...who could afford not to? Scares me many times more than Iran having nuclear weapons
Nice idea, not going to work though. The reason the syringes are reused is because these institutions can't afford to pay 5 cents for every patient. So how could this even be possible? Even if this was made law that all syringes had to be created in such a way, many people would illegally make and sell the old-style syringes. You'd be better off solving the socio-economic problems that lead to this need to reuse syringes, before trying to convince people to buy this.
@xphilli well we have sold 2 billion so far...... and if they can't afford 5 cents, they can't afford the treatment needed if they acquire Hep B. You know when seat belts were introduced some people refused to use them and had tons of strong reasons why. Now, we don't hear that argument often and most wear them and that is progress.
All I know is, syringes SHOULD NOT be reused or end up in the hands of the wrong people. I am glad that this great man came up with this, It is very helpful. (=
Wow, a humble comment on YT. That's something you don't see very often. Maybe I could have made a better example but you see what I was getting at. Without the syringe, how will people administer life saving drugs? There has to be another solution.
Just watched the Rolex advert at the end, all made by machine, that puts me off buying that "luxury" brand for sure! They don't even make them by hand!
So, this is really coo, but here's my thing. the whole reason hospitals in 3rd world countries reuse syringes is they most likely cannot afford the number of syringes they would need to use 1 per patient.
If these new syringes are the same cost as regular syringes, they won't solve the problem. They need to be a tiny fraction of the cost.
Say they use 1 syringe for every 100 patients. That's $0.0.5/100 patients. But if they have to use 1 syringe per patient, that's $5.00/100 patients. That is 20 times the cost of the old type. At that rate, the cost is 20 times higher.
These are a great and innovative idea, but if they're going to be used, they need to be affordable. How do we make them affordable?
Every person infected with HIV or Hepatitis in the world costs someone in some way thousands of dollars each year if they are fortunate enough to be treated. What would you prefer proper delivery of injections or HIV and Hepatitis running wild. Reuse of syringes cause 22 million cases a year! Want more?
Plus injections are over used. We need to reduce the amount given by half I would guess. And that again will help with the waste challenge.
Recent work we have carried out shows that for every dollar spent on using syringes correctly saves $200 in future treatment costs. Early days on this research to write a paper but it is in this region.
I'm not in any way saying I would prefer the spread of HIV/AIDS. I'm all for one patient one syringe. And the invention is awesome. My question is, how do we incentivise their use. Either we need to make the hospitals realize that the short term savings results in long term higher costs OR we need to fund giving the syringes to these hospitals.
Greed or poverty aside, it doesn't really matter. Hospitals reuse syringes to attempt to save money.
Absolutely, I agree what many others have said. I would like to add, coming from a third world country myself, I see a fair bit these atrocities. Many reputable hospitable do the same, not because they can't afford it but out of sheer greed. This is only one of many malpractices that hospitals indulge in.
i didnt want to say it but this has been what i have seen when ever i worked at hospitals where such practices were common. it wasnt even that the nurses werent tought better and they knew but the hospital managers just didnt buy more syringes just so they can save some bucks. which leads me to believe they wont spent money on this syringe either (though i wish they would get sued for their MALPRACTICE, yes malpractice of the managers not the nurses/docters that dont have
Just more plastic shit to fill our oceans with. Why can't people use reusable glass syringes that have improved design features and clean them properly after each use?
I agree with your assertion. However, because people refuse to follow S.O.P., does that mean we should excuse their laziness and make new products that have a high environmental cost? Instead, shouldn't we should enforce Standard Operating Procedures and not coddle those who refuse to follow them? Training, training and more training is a better answer.
Couldn't agree more. Why does an auto-disable syringe have a higher environmental cost? Same amount of plastic etc. Plus when used - less secondary transmission, less people ill, so less equipment needed to treat etc. in the future.
This cannot be viewed as just the syringe you are right but has the same complexity as a seat belt. We were asked nicely to wear them, then told to in law, and now punished if we do not!
Ideally we need far fewer but safer injections worldwide.
Although I wish it were true, do you actually think that such S.O.P's are even enforceable. Hospitals are REUSING syringes and you wish for such people to clean it after each use?
I come from a third world country. I speak with experience. The only way to enforce any procedure is through forcible means. Mass reuse of syringes is definitely a bigger problem than the environmental effects syringes have IMO.
If India had the money and facilities to better train their medical practitioners I think they would've done so by now. Syringes you can only use once, coupled with more training, is the only safe option to go with. As marckoska said, when they are forced to only use 1 syringe once, less people will get ill, meaning less production of syringes long term.
I avoid purchasing wrapped food products as much as possible by preparing the majority of my own food from scratch and purchasing much of my food in bulk from stores that make it available; e.g., rice, flour, fruits, vegetables, etc. It can be difficult at times, but we all should at least make an effort.
Ah very well then, that's very positive thinking. However, I think if we want to make any kind of impact we should ban a lot of packaging methods and replace them with better ones, considering the foodmarket is a sellers market.
But, to stay on topic; hospitals generate a lot of waste, but good healthcare will always cost a lot of energy and resources. I think overpackaged food is a greater risk and above-all; unnecessary.
I agree. Wish sterilisation could be relied on, and economic, but sadly both of these elements are no way near good enough, hence plastic auto-disable syringes will become the norm. Too many injections are given and ideally these should be reduced by half?
Didn't like much when he used the word "licenced".
There seems to be a problem with this syringe when he shows it there's already some air inside it, if you add then the medicine there will be air with it, not a good to inject onto yourself.
ummm sorry buddy but that is not true a large air embolus will most definatly cause the patient to have a heart attack hence the flicking and squirting before the injection
I'll probably get in crap for posting this but I feel I need to.
The way to 'hack' around that is to "not push it all the way to the end where it locks - simply push it until it almost locks. then load it up again and reuse it."
No man you're right, cause that is what they will do, actually the problem doesn't lay on develop a new serynge but in improving the conscience and economic capabilities of this countries...so they want and can afford the equipment
this doesn't happen. the drug is many times more valuable than the syringe and the paying patient wants the full shot. many healthcare workers are very honest and caring and so deliver the full shot as well.
Isn't rubbing alcohol an inexpensive material? I don't understand why people don't sterilize syringes between uses. Or at least boil them, if they are so short on use. Instead of causing others a lifetime of pain and suffering. I'm glad to hear that there's an alternative out there but when will this product phase out the existing syringes? Anyways, thank you tedtalks as always for keeping up to date.
being a doctor who has practiced in pakistan i can say with 100% confidence that this is definitely not the solution. the best solution is better training of hospital personnel and better hospital sharps wast disposal and more funding for these 2 solutions. this guy is just trying to make a buck and nothing more.
As these auto-disable syringes are the same price as normal syringes please be assured there is no more bucks to be made than from the system you advocate of improved training and sharps disposal with normal syringes. (How would you know I have no other motive? What special insight do you have? Is it that you are a Doctor? Got it!)
Auto-disable syringes are a valued part of many global programmes and you are quite right that training and waste are of great importance as well.
my "special" insight comes from the fact that i have practiced in multiple hospitals in pakistan and i have attended multiple seminars on this issue of improper waste disposal/ lack of awareness. the auto-disable syringes you offer cost the same as the normal syringes and yes if i were a hospital manager i would prefer your syringes over other syringes. but the issue at large is lack of awareness as you pointed out with the man pricking himself then burning his wound.
the hospital staff need to be better trained in how to work with sharps since that is the root of all this.
as to my comment on that you are just out to make a buck your syringe is not the solution to this mess its training and education of the entire hospital staff (not just the nurses) and to provide better waste disposal facilities since we both know that the costs for such facilities are enormous.
the next step would ofcourse be to educate the public at large the dangers of needle prick incidences.
dont get me wrong marc i appreciate your concern and effort not to mention your resources spent but to truly rid our selves of this problem we need to raise awareness not offer another syringe that the hospital managers who dont stock more syringes in the first place be it due to financial reasons or lack of awareness or plain and simply not caring enough.
Respectfully I meant the special insight you had to say that I was only trying to make a buck AND NOTHING ELSE. Who are you that you know this for sure?
my apologies that i offended you. i jumped to a premature conclusion by saying you are only in it for the money and nothing else (reason why i am thinking otherwise now is because of the fact that it offended you, since if it didn't it would have most likely be true) marc in all honesty i don't think your invention will work but i do hope it does. anything to lower the needless spread off blood born diseases. I wish you the best of luck.
I commend this guy for offering an alternative solution. He's a constructive thinker. Having read a lot of the comments, it is clear that there are huge design, cost, and health challenges associated with this solution. But it is a start. I wonder, if it would be possible to create a single-use syringe at half the cost of the current syringe? Also, is it possible to offer an inexpensive/easy "sanitizer" for syringes?
There aren't many challenges with this solution, that's the whole point. It is a simple change considering all the materials and equipment are existing. And as far as easy and cheap sanitizers...well we have those. However, if they won't spend 5 cents on a new syringe they won't pay for any sanitizer either.
isnt it ironic that a talk like this, whose topic you could attribute to a lack of interest, action and money etc is followed by a rolex ad, designed to get people to put their interest and money in a damn watch?
The less real value something has, the more it needs to be advertised. So the advertising space gets dominated by things with high margins (so they can compete in the ad market) and low value or even negative value. Then, how does one convince others to buy that which has low or negative real value? By distorting their perceptions from healthy to unhealthy of course.
Convince them that processes are objects (even that people are objects), life is meaningless (thus living in accordance with empathy, patience, wisdom gained from careful listening and observation, and purposefulness is antiquated, futile, even naive), display of trivial choices in consumption is the embodiment of success, community is equal to communism, etc. So yeah, it's ironic, vulgar, and sadly predictable.
Right right. Thankfully I figured out the consumption game a few years ago. It seems to have only taken me about 5 years to be fed up with basically everything and prioritize what I feel has worth instead of basing my feelings of worth on what others have told me they are worth. It's been quiet a pleasant lifestyle change and I do hope more people can take the time to look at them-selves and discover what has value to them on a personal level.
Well said. I too am sick of the materialistic world we live in. You can live a much happier life if you can change your perspective. See pass the false importance that media and the majority of society put on materialistic goods and what they believe is the right way to live, and live your own life, your own way.
good point, if we know that the syringes will be reused one way or the other in the developing countries, why cant they be designed specifically for reuse. disposable syringe are a hazard just because not all precautions are taken to dispose them and that will induce a larger risk. I think there are more opportunities for innovation here, in materials, design as well as information dissemination.
I doubt people who use syringes more than once are "crazy" just uneducated in how the body, disease, and these syringes can interact. Compound this by an economic mindset that nothing should be thrown away when it still functions.
The viewers of TED talks has a higher concentration of wealthy and affluent users than your average television network or radio program. This kind of user demographic, therefore, has a higher chance of creating a sale.
The subject matter of the delivery system has nothing to do with the demographic of users an advertiser targets. Instead it's the "types" of users they are targeting.
wut a sad sad world we live in. and im not refering to the injustice or poverty, but rather the hipocracy and sluggish double standards predominant amongst the influential and average persons.
This doesn't only happen in second and third world areas.
Recently, in the USA, a number of veterans were informed that they may have contracted serious infections from plastic tubing used in bowel examinations. Tubing that had been used, without cleaning, on several different patients in the same day. Lack of money is not the only problem there is also greed and corruption, universal human attributes in action.
making and distributing one-use syringes would simply mean that less people would get their treatment (costs more than using one syringe over and over again). so the solution proposed in this video although correct in principle is inapplicable at the moment
May I suggest that you WANT fewer people getting treatment if this is the result of the treatment?
It is counterintuitive: we want FEWER people getting treated?
... Yes.
Consider:
Let us precipitate a crisis, a less than acceptable (because, believe it or not, but even in advanced medical care regimes there is such a thing as an "acceptable") amount of people going un"treated" (because no syringes are available) so the system will be pressured by the populace to change.
It's made on existing equipment with existing material. That means there is no system change, just a change of tooling at the factory. This is the equivalent of changing from a black pen to a blue pen to write with.
well i agree with you on that. however it is much cheaper using a regular syringe 100 times than 100 of this new syringes (even though they cost the same its a matter of quantities used) (the system i was referring in my previous comment is the government system btw)
this guy has a point and is doing everything he can to help people but i dont think a one-use syringe will solve the problem. the reason syringes are reused is because of their unavailability in some economically challenged countries.governments must stop spending money on wars and destruction and instead try to improve their peoples health. this problem with syringes transmitting diseases is going to grow and wont be solved unless governments start to do something.
I don't get it! it appears that Marc Koska twist the piston so it will brake. But even if I didn't saw right and the syringe really locks and brake the nurses will not push it all the way down and then reuse it.
I think that in india syringes are being reused because they don't have enough for everyone...sad
this guys is a genius, and on the other hand, being a medical clerk, those nurses in India just ruined my evening. How the f*^^% can this be happening!!!!!!!!
it is simple, gradually ban production of the reusable ones over a 5 year period!!! we humans are a sick and dangerous specie, education will not go all the way. give him something else! this is so sickkkkk!!!!!!!
Maybe we need to get rid of the syringe all together? Find another means to application? I'm trying to think of what but I can't come up with anything. Anyone got any ideas?
We need to figure out an efficient and inexpensive way to sterilize these syringes so we can still recycle them. Perhaps if the needles themselves are removable so you can take them off and put them into a bio zapping machine killing the life on the syringe. We would also need to design the syringes so that there couldn't be any drawback of blood into the reservoir itself. Keep the locking mechanism, just don't break it after use, unlock it once the needle is removed and replaced.
A proper injection actually needs the practitioner to draw blood in it, to ensure not to have placed the needle into an artery (dark vs light red blood). Injecting a drug which is made for venous or subcutaneous application into an artery can be lethal.
I did not know that, thanks for that information! Well then maybe we could develop a syringe that could be zapped all together then. Or if we were to dip them in some sort of solution that cleans them out but also inexpensively. Finding a way to make it cost less to sterilize them instead of buying new ones is the way to go. Recycling is key.
I was under the impression that in order to draw the proper amount of medicine the plunger needed to be fully depressed. Then drawing it back would create the vacuum necessary to draw in the liquid up to the certain line. If the plunger can no be fully depressed without it breaking, how can they load the syringe? He starts his demo with the plunger halfway back...
It does not. All you have to do is remove all the air. You can remove all the air by drawing some fluid with air in there, then pressing out the air and drawing the remaining fluid. Once the plunger is fully depressed, it will break off if you try to re-draw it. That's why the tip of the syringe is off to the side: to create the necessary vacuum.
From the manufacturer's point of view is much more reliable to make the regular syringes, they just wont sell one-use syringes, you cant remove that existing market with a faulty replacement.
Of course i would encorage to use them, but profit is first as a general rule, sadly.
If someone is re-using syringes, obviously they don't think it's a problem. And if they don't think it's a problem, why would they buy this new syringe that breaks after one use?
To that person - this is a FAULTY SYRINGE, WORTH LESS THAN A NORMAL SYRINGE.
Why would they choose to buy it?
Anyone who KNOWS to buy this single-use syringe, would also know not to re-use syringes in the first place anyway!
It's like inventing a helmet for superman, the only person in the world who DOESN'T need one.
From the manufacturer's point of view is much more reliable to make the regular syringes, they just wont sell one-use syringes, you cant remove that existing market with a faulty replacement.
Of course i would encorage to use them, but profit is first as a general rule, sadly.
Obviously these hospitals CHOOSE to administer drugs with used needles. Even if one-time-use-only needles are produced, they will simply CHOOSE to use the old style. I'm sure the hospital staff are not the ones worried about the bottom line. They will use what they are provided with.
So the question should be: Isn't India wealthy enough to ensure a regular supply of properly disposed of syringes, in order to administer safe medical care to it's 1.2bn population?
You have a good point if the assumption you make about cost is true. I think this will only work if we can keep the reusable syringes out of the market. I have little hope for that outcome right now. Again, why would a system willing to buy back, at a higher cost, a used product want to have a one-use product to replace it? It will be a tragic waste of a good idea if it fails.
One wonders... could this make things WORSE? If medical staff, rather than plunging the syringes all the way down (1 per dose) decide that reusing the syringes is still important, so they start giving 2 doses, each at half-a-plunge, now we have the syringe needle going into the medicine twice as often. :/
I get what you mean. I'm inclined to think he's not deluding himself, but just presenting the product in a friendly forum in its most positive light as a step in the right direction, rather than an effective solution.
I didn't even know the problem was that bad. I thought they'd have some method of sterilizing things...like boiling water or whatnot. People sortof have the choice of death soon or death not so soon but from something entirely unexpected if that's how hygiene is treated over there.
Boiling does sterilize but there are some organisms such as hepatitis that are very hard to kill. HIV is very fragile outside the body but plastic doesn't boil very well. :)
Hehe that's true about plastic, I hadn't even thought about it...Some plastics can take boiled water but I guess not necessarily boiling in water. Chalk one up for logic :)
This will make it much more difficult, but also it will prompt medical professionals to the issue in a much more obvious and consistent way. It will also make medical reuse something which much more clearly violates procedures that are usually also illegal in many places too.
all in all it puts a big obstacle up for this fringe economy, where lives cost no more than a few pence.
It is a great idea but first you have to convince local doctors to use them and therein lies the rub.
Poverty is not the only problem in this issue. Culture, thinking habits, and ignorance also play a big role.
China is not a poor country. It currently owns a significant piece of the US economy yet the reuse of needles is very common there. Local governments have a huge role to play in this but they must be convinced of the necessity of curtailing these practices.
noble... yet we must see if it will save more lives then it will take. For those people 5 cents must be a lot if they choose to reuse the it. And medicine price will go up with it. Also free market gives what people want not what people need. If they dont want this solution then it will never work.. we need something better.
This problem in developing countries could be resolved if autoclaves were more widely available and they made syringes which could withstand the heat and pressure.
I don't think that adapting that will prevent people from getting access to regular syringes and reusing them. Even if all the big syringe manufacturers were to adopt the use of these new syringes, there will be many other companies waiting to pounce on the opportunity of making profit on the lack of supply of the original syringes.
Reusable syringes are NOT the problem. Improper sanitation is the problem. I would NEVER keep a 1-time-use-only syringe in my emergency medical kit. Never. A typical syringe is good for at least 3 injections.
Thats just insane - there is no way these people should be practising medicene! What the hell are India's leaders doing? They get billions of dollars in aid from the West and spend this money on nuclear weapons and Space programs while the people go hungry and this is going on! What a joke, Britain gives that country 100's millions - we haven't got a Space program ourselves!
1- WTF!?! i had no idea this was going on. at least not this badly.
2- i would like to see one of those syringes, if they contained twice the dose, and where only half emptied before they where re filled, would they still lock and brake? i say this because most of this problem obviously seems to be intentional.
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Amazing.
The man is thinking, doing, trying to make the world a better place and so many on here have turned away from their video games and Cheetos to do nothing but explain why it will not work.
Pathetic.
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Amazing. The man is thinking, doing, trying to make the world a better place and so many on here have turned away from their video games and Cheetos to do nothing but explain why it will not work. Pathetic.
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If the syringe cannot be reused 20 or 30 times, then that makes it 20-30 times more expensive.
Also, syringes could be over filled & used for several injections, thus never requiring the plunger to be withdrawn, it solves nothing.
Cheaper sharps and syringes, better training & adequate sterilizing equipment (so syringes could be reused safely) would be a much better better.
marsCubed 1 year ago
@marsCubed Interested in your comment. Does that mean you would be happy if the cutlery in a restaurant was not washed from the previous customer if you had 10 cents knocked off the bill?
Drugs are more expensive than syringes so the patients pay for a full dose.
How cheap would you like a syringe to be?
marckoska 1 year ago
@marckoska Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I do not doubt your motives and the efficacy of removing reusable syringes from the equation, it just seems that reusable syringes would be sourced by those with the bad practices. Of course it will make some difference, but i wonder how much, even small cost increases seem to drive the problem.
it is more criticism than rebuke. good luck to you.
marsCubed 1 year ago
India is such a shabby place, and to think that they spent billions on their Army and Nuclear weapons.
Mishkafofer 1 year ago
@Mishkafofer Uh huh...with the US going around with its big stick...who could afford not to? Scares me many times more than Iran having nuclear weapons
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Fantastic!
anikinippon 1 year ago
Nice idea, not going to work though. The reason the syringes are reused is because these institutions can't afford to pay 5 cents for every patient. So how could this even be possible? Even if this was made law that all syringes had to be created in such a way, many people would illegally make and sell the old-style syringes. You'd be better off solving the socio-economic problems that lead to this need to reuse syringes, before trying to convince people to buy this.
xphilli 1 year ago
@xphilli well we have sold 2 billion so far...... and if they can't afford 5 cents, they can't afford the treatment needed if they acquire Hep B. You know when seat belts were introduced some people refused to use them and had tons of strong reasons why. Now, we don't hear that argument often and most wear them and that is progress.
marckoska 1 year ago
You're amazing !
nounehem 2 years ago
great contribution..must appreciate
sheyshey071085 2 years ago
True Charity!! God Bless you :)
manishvsg 2 years ago
thank you..we really need peopl like you
sheyshey071085 2 years ago
wonderful!
topheramazz 2 years ago
thank you.
jenjerx 2 years ago
All I know is, syringes SHOULD NOT be reused or end up in the hands of the wrong people. I am glad that this great man came up with this, It is very helpful. (=
VeronicaAngel123 2 years ago
Simple, elegant solution. Very nice.
Saerain 2 years ago
What a great man is all I can say.
If only 5% of the people in this world were as noble as him.
sean9820 2 years ago
@sean9820 If only the wealthiest 5% were as noble... But who are we kidding lol
borisj87 2 years ago
That's disgusting, reusing syringes.
Never imagined it was so widespread.
KrakenZero 2 years ago 3
We should at least send them some sort of sterilization equipment.
WhyNotTruth 2 years ago
A break-off syringe? Isn't that like breaking someones arms to keep them from possibly shooting themselves?
WhyNotTruth 2 years ago
no....
AMP3G 2 years ago
yes....
WhyNotTruth 2 years ago
your totally right on this one, i must have been drunk or something
AMP3G 2 years ago
Wow, a humble comment on YT. That's something you don't see very often. Maybe I could have made a better example but you see what I was getting at. Without the syringe, how will people administer life saving drugs? There has to be another solution.
WhyNotTruth 2 years ago
hmm maybe some sort of patch, they seem to work great for nicotine and i think there is a birth control patch too.
AMP3G 2 years ago
Just watched the Rolex advert at the end, all made by machine, that puts me off buying that "luxury" brand for sure! They don't even make them by hand!
shashintokyo 2 years ago
So, this is really coo, but here's my thing. the whole reason hospitals in 3rd world countries reuse syringes is they most likely cannot afford the number of syringes they would need to use 1 per patient.
If these new syringes are the same cost as regular syringes, they won't solve the problem. They need to be a tiny fraction of the cost.
eccentricfather 2 years ago
Say they use 1 syringe for every 100 patients. That's $0.0.5/100 patients. But if they have to use 1 syringe per patient, that's $5.00/100 patients. That is 20 times the cost of the old type. At that rate, the cost is 20 times higher.
These are a great and innovative idea, but if they're going to be used, they need to be affordable. How do we make them affordable?
eccentricfather 2 years ago
Every person infected with HIV or Hepatitis in the world costs someone in some way thousands of dollars each year if they are fortunate enough to be treated. What would you prefer proper delivery of injections or HIV and Hepatitis running wild. Reuse of syringes cause 22 million cases a year! Want more?
Plus injections are over used. We need to reduce the amount given by half I would guess. And that again will help with the waste challenge.
marckoska 2 years ago
Recent work we have carried out shows that for every dollar spent on using syringes correctly saves $200 in future treatment costs. Early days on this research to write a paper but it is in this region.
marckoska 2 years ago
Mr. Koska,
I'm not in any way saying I would prefer the spread of HIV/AIDS. I'm all for one patient one syringe. And the invention is awesome. My question is, how do we incentivise their use. Either we need to make the hospitals realize that the short term savings results in long term higher costs OR we need to fund giving the syringes to these hospitals.
Greed or poverty aside, it doesn't really matter. Hospitals reuse syringes to attempt to save money.
eccentricfather 2 years ago
And just like most people in the world, if they can save $4.95 now they're going to do it and worry about the $200 down the road.
eccentricfather 2 years ago
Absolutely, I agree what many others have said. I would like to add, coming from a third world country myself, I see a fair bit these atrocities. Many reputable hospitable do the same, not because they can't afford it but out of sheer greed. This is only one of many malpractices that hospitals indulge in.
TejasM14 2 years ago
you just nailed it.
i didnt want to say it but this has been what i have seen when ever i worked at hospitals where such practices were common. it wasnt even that the nurses werent tought better and they knew but the hospital managers just didnt buy more syringes just so they can save some bucks. which leads me to believe they wont spent money on this syringe either (though i wish they would get sued for their MALPRACTICE, yes malpractice of the managers not the nurses/docters that dont have
aminizle 2 years ago
syringes to work with...
aminizle 2 years ago
poor junkies will have a hard time finding good syringes now or they'll start carrying a personal one the whole time :P
BrutusAlbion 2 years ago
Just more plastic shit to fill our oceans with. Why can't people use reusable glass syringes that have improved design features and clean them properly after each use?
theidiotslapper 2 years ago 2
Put simply, people obviously WON'T clean them properly. It increases the risk of poor hygiene accidents.
LadyVIolence 2 years ago
LadyVlolence
I agree with your assertion. However, because people refuse to follow S.O.P., does that mean we should excuse their laziness and make new products that have a high environmental cost? Instead, shouldn't we should enforce Standard Operating Procedures and not coddle those who refuse to follow them? Training, training and more training is a better answer.
cri8tor 2 years ago 6
Couldn't agree more. Why does an auto-disable syringe have a higher environmental cost? Same amount of plastic etc. Plus when used - less secondary transmission, less people ill, so less equipment needed to treat etc. in the future.
This cannot be viewed as just the syringe you are right but has the same complexity as a seat belt. We were asked nicely to wear them, then told to in law, and now punished if we do not!
Ideally we need far fewer but safer injections worldwide.
marckoska 2 years ago
Although I wish it were true, do you actually think that such S.O.P's are even enforceable. Hospitals are REUSING syringes and you wish for such people to clean it after each use?
I come from a third world country. I speak with experience. The only way to enforce any procedure is through forcible means. Mass reuse of syringes is definitely a bigger problem than the environmental effects syringes have IMO.
TejasM14 2 years ago
If India had the money and facilities to better train their medical practitioners I think they would've done so by now. Syringes you can only use once, coupled with more training, is the only safe option to go with. As marckoska said, when they are forced to only use 1 syringe once, less people will get ill, meaning less production of syringes long term.
LadyVIolence 2 years ago
@cri8tor If you want to do this you need to pay the syringes they need
RazielKain 1 year ago
@RazielKain They'll get paid in the number of lives that will be saved.
aedilwulf 1 year ago
@RazielKain cheaper by x100 than the infection!
marckoska 1 year ago
do you think about that sort of stuff everytime you buy wrapped foodproducts?
Waranoa 2 years ago
Waranoa
I avoid purchasing wrapped food products as much as possible by preparing the majority of my own food from scratch and purchasing much of my food in bulk from stores that make it available; e.g., rice, flour, fruits, vegetables, etc. It can be difficult at times, but we all should at least make an effort.
theidiotslapper 2 years ago 2
Ah very well then, that's very positive thinking. However, I think if we want to make any kind of impact we should ban a lot of packaging methods and replace them with better ones, considering the foodmarket is a sellers market.
But, to stay on topic; hospitals generate a lot of waste, but good healthcare will always cost a lot of energy and resources. I think overpackaged food is a greater risk and above-all; unnecessary.
Waranoa 2 years ago
I agree. Wish sterilisation could be relied on, and economic, but sadly both of these elements are no way near good enough, hence plastic auto-disable syringes will become the norm. Too many injections are given and ideally these should be reduced by half?
Marc Koska
marckoska 2 years ago
Didn't like much when he used the word "licenced".
There seems to be a problem with this syringe when he shows it there's already some air inside it, if you add then the medicine there will be air with it, not a good to inject onto yourself.
GI2K 2 years ago
That's why doctors hold it upside down, flick it, then squirt a bit out.
LudicrousTachyon 2 years ago
Not entirely true.
You can get quite a large air bubble in an injection and it will do no damage. afaik.
frenzyfol 2 years ago
ummm sorry buddy but that is not true a large air embolus will most definatly cause the patient to have a heart attack hence the flicking and squirting before the injection
aminizle 2 years ago
I'll probably get in crap for posting this but I feel I need to.
The way to 'hack' around that is to "not push it all the way to the end where it locks - simply push it until it almost locks. then load it up again and reuse it."
Fail. Sorry.
phicubed 2 years ago 4
No man you're right, cause that is what they will do, actually the problem doesn't lay on develop a new serynge but in improving the conscience and economic capabilities of this countries...so they want and can afford the equipment
intestinomedicino 2 years ago
this doesn't happen. the drug is many times more valuable than the syringe and the paying patient wants the full shot. many healthcare workers are very honest and caring and so deliver the full shot as well.
marckoska 2 years ago
I am not sure if that is true. Are you sure about it? That would be the first counter problem that would come up with this innovation.
TejasM14 2 years ago
@phicubed
I don't think it's a fail but the first step to improvement!
If the syringe would lock at any given point to where it has been pushed in and could not be pulled further out that could be the ultimate solution.
Jus2mello 1 year ago
Isn't rubbing alcohol an inexpensive material? I don't understand why people don't sterilize syringes between uses. Or at least boil them, if they are so short on use. Instead of causing others a lifetime of pain and suffering. I'm glad to hear that there's an alternative out there but when will this product phase out the existing syringes? Anyways, thank you tedtalks as always for keeping up to date.
miaoster 2 years ago
Alcohol is not an effective sterilizer. You can't boil most plastics.
macnutz 2 years ago
and it takes time to boil and sterilize. When you have a line of 100 patients, they aren't going to wait for you to sterilize between each injection.
eccentricfather 2 years ago
Wait wait wait.
Why is there a Rolex commercial at the end?
Arcaani 2 years ago
being a doctor who has practiced in pakistan i can say with 100% confidence that this is definitely not the solution. the best solution is better training of hospital personnel and better hospital sharps wast disposal and more funding for these 2 solutions. this guy is just trying to make a buck and nothing more.
aminizle 2 years ago
Doctor
As these auto-disable syringes are the same price as normal syringes please be assured there is no more bucks to be made than from the system you advocate of improved training and sharps disposal with normal syringes. (How would you know I have no other motive? What special insight do you have? Is it that you are a Doctor? Got it!)
Auto-disable syringes are a valued part of many global programmes and you are quite right that training and waste are of great importance as well.
M
marckoska 2 years ago
hello Marc Koska,
my "special" insight comes from the fact that i have practiced in multiple hospitals in pakistan and i have attended multiple seminars on this issue of improper waste disposal/ lack of awareness. the auto-disable syringes you offer cost the same as the normal syringes and yes if i were a hospital manager i would prefer your syringes over other syringes. but the issue at large is lack of awareness as you pointed out with the man pricking himself then burning his wound.
aminizle 2 years ago
the hospital staff need to be better trained in how to work with sharps since that is the root of all this.
as to my comment on that you are just out to make a buck your syringe is not the solution to this mess its training and education of the entire hospital staff (not just the nurses) and to provide better waste disposal facilities since we both know that the costs for such facilities are enormous.
aminizle 2 years ago
the next step would ofcourse be to educate the public at large the dangers of needle prick incidences.
dont get me wrong marc i appreciate your concern and effort not to mention your resources spent but to truly rid our selves of this problem we need to raise awareness not offer another syringe that the hospital managers who dont stock more syringes in the first place be it due to financial reasons or lack of awareness or plain and simply not caring enough.
aminizle 2 years ago
Respectfully I meant the special insight you had to say that I was only trying to make a buck AND NOTHING ELSE. Who are you that you know this for sure?
marckoska 2 years ago
my apologies that i offended you. i jumped to a premature conclusion by saying you are only in it for the money and nothing else (reason why i am thinking otherwise now is because of the fact that it offended you, since if it didn't it would have most likely be true) marc in all honesty i don't think your invention will work but i do hope it does. anything to lower the needless spread off blood born diseases. I wish you the best of luck.
aminizle 2 years ago
All of what you said, COUPLED with the re-invented syringe is the safest option.
LadyVIolence 2 years ago
I commend this guy for offering an alternative solution. He's a constructive thinker. Having read a lot of the comments, it is clear that there are huge design, cost, and health challenges associated with this solution. But it is a start. I wonder, if it would be possible to create a single-use syringe at half the cost of the current syringe? Also, is it possible to offer an inexpensive/easy "sanitizer" for syringes?
bornearth 2 years ago
There aren't many challenges with this solution, that's the whole point. It is a simple change considering all the materials and equipment are existing. And as far as easy and cheap sanitizers...well we have those. However, if they won't spend 5 cents on a new syringe they won't pay for any sanitizer either.
swillis3000 2 years ago
Just as soon.
papalosopher 2 years ago
OMG I saw my primary care physician on this vid!
dorotwhy 2 years ago
isnt it ironic that a talk like this, whose topic you could attribute to a lack of interest, action and money etc is followed by a rolex ad, designed to get people to put their interest and money in a damn watch?
rangusroung 2 years ago
Unfortunately, without the Rolex and BMW ads, there would be no public TED videos :( I guess it's easy money for TED this way.
ndawg25 2 years ago
The less real value something has, the more it needs to be advertised. So the advertising space gets dominated by things with high margins (so they can compete in the ad market) and low value or even negative value. Then, how does one convince others to buy that which has low or negative real value? By distorting their perceptions from healthy to unhealthy of course.
momentinpassing 2 years ago
Convince them that processes are objects (even that people are objects), life is meaningless (thus living in accordance with empathy, patience, wisdom gained from careful listening and observation, and purposefulness is antiquated, futile, even naive), display of trivial choices in consumption is the embodiment of success, community is equal to communism, etc. So yeah, it's ironic, vulgar, and sadly predictable.
momentinpassing 2 years ago
Right right. Thankfully I figured out the consumption game a few years ago. It seems to have only taken me about 5 years to be fed up with basically everything and prioritize what I feel has worth instead of basing my feelings of worth on what others have told me they are worth. It's been quiet a pleasant lifestyle change and I do hope more people can take the time to look at them-selves and discover what has value to them on a personal level.
btwbrand 2 years ago
Well said. I too am sick of the materialistic world we live in. You can live a much happier life if you can change your perspective. See pass the false importance that media and the majority of society put on materialistic goods and what they believe is the right way to live, and live your own life, your own way.
kingofninjas88 2 years ago
what's stopping the nurses from over filling the syringe and injecting the correct amount, but not closing the syringe enough to cause it to lock?
the nurses just need educating.
savagearrows 2 years ago 7
Such a simple invention, yet so brilliant.
One can only hope that this product becomes the only available type in a very short time.
piotrezzz 2 years ago 2
good point, if we know that the syringes will be reused one way or the other in the developing countries, why cant they be designed specifically for reuse. disposable syringe are a hazard just because not all precautions are taken to dispose them and that will induce a larger risk. I think there are more opportunities for innovation here, in materials, design as well as information dissemination.
saritarora 2 years ago
Indier?
INDIA! THERES AN "A"!
And these country who reuse needles are crazy.
BriskAxe 2 years ago 2
I doubt people who use syringes more than once are "crazy" just uneducated in how the body, disease, and these syringes can interact. Compound this by an economic mindset that nothing should be thrown away when it still functions.
btwbrand 2 years ago 2
vids about countries that cant afford 5 cent syringes AND TEDS GOT THE NERVE TO SHOW A FUCKING ROLEX COMMERICAL AFTER THE TALK????????????????
shows how shallow and superficial our care for the less fortunate relly is >:(
bmed19 2 years ago
Well duh.
People donate to foreign countries instead of helping raise the standard of living in project neighborhoods around their city.
Once more, only people with disposable income donate money, in general.
BriskAxe 2 years ago
You've pointed out Marketing done right Bmed19.
The viewers of TED talks has a higher concentration of wealthy and affluent users than your average television network or radio program. This kind of user demographic, therefore, has a higher chance of creating a sale.
The subject matter of the delivery system has nothing to do with the demographic of users an advertiser targets. Instead it's the "types" of users they are targeting.
btwbrand 2 years ago
well said
wut a sad sad world we live in. and im not refering to the injustice or poverty, but rather the hipocracy and sluggish double standards predominant amongst the influential and average persons.
bmed19 2 years ago
Are you retarded?
martyr84 2 years ago
only in the morning
bmed19 2 years ago
This doesn't only happen in second and third world areas.
Recently, in the USA, a number of veterans were informed that they may have contracted serious infections from plastic tubing used in bowel examinations. Tubing that had been used, without cleaning, on several different patients in the same day. Lack of money is not the only problem there is also greed and corruption, universal human attributes in action.
macnutz 2 years ago
So sad.
IWannabeJew 2 years ago 2
making and distributing one-use syringes would simply mean that less people would get their treatment (costs more than using one syringe over and over again). so the solution proposed in this video although correct in principle is inapplicable at the moment
Galllos 2 years ago
That was my exact thought. What is the worse no treatment or the risk of aids/hepatitis?
piprod01 2 years ago
May I suggest that you WANT fewer people getting treatment if this is the result of the treatment?
It is counterintuitive: we want FEWER people getting treated?
... Yes.
Consider:
Let us precipitate a crisis, a less than acceptable (because, believe it or not, but even in advanced medical care regimes there is such a thing as an "acceptable") amount of people going un"treated" (because no syringes are available) so the system will be pressured by the populace to change.
papalosopher 2 years ago
systems do not change that easily or else there wouldn't be a syringe problem in the first place
Galllos 2 years ago
It's made on existing equipment with existing material. That means there is no system change, just a change of tooling at the factory. This is the equivalent of changing from a black pen to a blue pen to write with.
satinpurplefender 2 years ago
well i agree with you on that. however it is much cheaper using a regular syringe 100 times than 100 of this new syringes (even though they cost the same its a matter of quantities used) (the system i was referring in my previous comment is the government system btw)
Galllos 2 years ago
this guy has a point and is doing everything he can to help people but i dont think a one-use syringe will solve the problem. the reason syringes are reused is because of their unavailability in some economically challenged countries.governments must stop spending money on wars and destruction and instead try to improve their peoples health. this problem with syringes transmitting diseases is going to grow and wont be solved unless governments start to do something.
Galllos 2 years ago
A simple twist on the syringe that would help, but I'm afraid people will learn how to "cheat" and simply will not push the syringe all the way.
UserNameForYeeTube 2 years ago
This video better be about hyposprays!
branboom 2 years ago
Damn... But it was still pretty cool!
branboom 2 years ago
I don't get it! it appears that Marc Koska twist the piston so it will brake. But even if I didn't saw right and the syringe really locks and brake the nurses will not push it all the way down and then reuse it.
I think that in india syringes are being reused because they don't have enough for everyone...sad
Arghira 2 years ago 3
that is fucking scary!!! Good job inventing that new syringe!
iosuVakerizzo 2 years ago
Im confused: 'Koska' is Finnish and means 'Because'
DewdMusic 2 years ago
What's confusing you about that?
UserNameForYeeTube 2 years ago
ehh....all the nurse has to do is not depress the syringe fully and they can reuse it over and over
bmed19 2 years ago
this guys is a genius, and on the other hand, being a medical clerk, those nurses in India just ruined my evening. How the f*^^% can this be happening!!!!!!!!
pasky777 2 years ago
it should be about education. why would unsafe hospitals buy this product if they still have access to the reuseable ones?
nikanj 2 years ago
it is simple, gradually ban production of the reusable ones over a 5 year period!!! we humans are a sick and dangerous specie, education will not go all the way. give him something else! this is so sickkkkk!!!!!!!
pasky777 2 years ago
Maybe we need to get rid of the syringe all together? Find another means to application? I'm trying to think of what but I can't come up with anything. Anyone got any ideas?
jpmwetzel 2 years ago
Yes, but I'm not going to write it on a comment board on YouTube.
rotteklo 2 years ago
We need to figure out an efficient and inexpensive way to sterilize these syringes so we can still recycle them. Perhaps if the needles themselves are removable so you can take them off and put them into a bio zapping machine killing the life on the syringe. We would also need to design the syringes so that there couldn't be any drawback of blood into the reservoir itself. Keep the locking mechanism, just don't break it after use, unlock it once the needle is removed and replaced.
jpmwetzel 2 years ago
A proper injection actually needs the practitioner to draw blood in it, to ensure not to have placed the needle into an artery (dark vs light red blood). Injecting a drug which is made for venous or subcutaneous application into an artery can be lethal.
thiemogamma 2 years ago
I did not know that, thanks for that information! Well then maybe we could develop a syringe that could be zapped all together then. Or if we were to dip them in some sort of solution that cleans them out but also inexpensively. Finding a way to make it cost less to sterilize them instead of buying new ones is the way to go. Recycling is key.
jpmwetzel 2 years ago
I was under the impression that in order to draw the proper amount of medicine the plunger needed to be fully depressed. Then drawing it back would create the vacuum necessary to draw in the liquid up to the certain line. If the plunger can no be fully depressed without it breaking, how can they load the syringe? He starts his demo with the plunger halfway back...
ammre 2 years ago
The syringe could allow drawing up to start from a small way up, and the markings could start from that point too.
St00sh13 2 years ago
It does not. All you have to do is remove all the air. You can remove all the air by drawing some fluid with air in there, then pressing out the air and drawing the remaining fluid. Once the plunger is fully depressed, it will break off if you try to re-draw it. That's why the tip of the syringe is off to the side: to create the necessary vacuum.
uvcrwjjfdsjew 2 years ago
This is so flawed! People will find a way to reuse them anyway. Better educate them on how to sterilize them before reuse.
dskloet 2 years ago 3
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From the manufacturer's point of view is much more reliable to make the regular syringes, they just wont sell one-use syringes, you cant remove that existing market with a faulty replacement.
Of course i would encorage to use them, but profit is first as a general rule, sadly.
niniomigrania 2 years ago
Epic Fail: Just don't push the syringe in all the way!!!
andykjm 2 years ago 3
If someone is re-using syringes, obviously they don't think it's a problem. And if they don't think it's a problem, why would they buy this new syringe that breaks after one use?
To that person - this is a FAULTY SYRINGE, WORTH LESS THAN A NORMAL SYRINGE.
Why would they choose to buy it?
Anyone who KNOWS to buy this single-use syringe, would also know not to re-use syringes in the first place anyway!
It's like inventing a helmet for superman, the only person in the world who DOESN'T need one.
roidroid 2 years ago 3
From the manufacturer's point of view is much more reliable to make the regular syringes, they just wont sell one-use syringes, you cant remove that existing market with a faulty replacement.
Of course i would encorage to use them, but profit is first as a general rule, sadly.
niniomigrania 2 years ago
I think the idea is to make these new syringes the new standard.
Also some (not all like in the video) hospitals throw away there syringes, these syringes stop people in the slums from recycling them.
But i do agree, it's flawed.
CHumga 2 years ago
Nice! I hope it's put into use ASAP.
GetMeThere1 2 years ago
Obviously these hospitals CHOOSE to administer drugs with used needles. Even if one-time-use-only needles are produced, they will simply CHOOSE to use the old style. I'm sure the hospital staff are not the ones worried about the bottom line. They will use what they are provided with.
UraniumMan 2 years ago 2
What is confusing to me, is that the staff of this hospital would be FACING JAILTIME if they did this is another country.
Doesn't India have any standards? wtf.
Many of the world's doctors come from India! Is this safe?
roidroid 2 years ago
Standards cost money.
So the question should be: Isn't India wealthy enough to ensure a regular supply of properly disposed of syringes, in order to administer safe medical care to it's 1.2bn population?
waspbloke 2 years ago
Wow the whole world is full of douchebags. More proof.
GuineaJay 2 years ago
Is that..."reusable" douchebags?
GetMeThere1 2 years ago 2
Christ, that's terrible. Even if you're using the same syringe can't they frickin sterilize them between use?
saxquiz 2 years ago
In short Not a believer Will not solve much at all
DIProgan 2 years ago
Problem with this product is that it can't be re-used. So you are asking hospitals to buy a product that can do less.
Of course it's safer, but the problem is that they can't afford to buy it anyway since it costs the same as the ones they reuse.
Best would be to have some sort of injector that CAN be reused and only cost 5 cent or so in the first place. :|
Memubitsu 2 years ago
You have a good point if the assumption you make about cost is true. I think this will only work if we can keep the reusable syringes out of the market. I have little hope for that outcome right now. Again, why would a system willing to buy back, at a higher cost, a used product want to have a one-use product to replace it? It will be a tragic waste of a good idea if it fails.
carlandj 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
india is highly overpopulated. maybe let the syringes do their job. :-)
Ramsez 2 years ago
What a great, simple and affordable solution!! I hope his organization gets these out to as many health clinics as they can worldwide.
ravkes 2 years ago 2
One wonders... could this make things WORSE? If medical staff, rather than plunging the syringes all the way down (1 per dose) decide that reusing the syringes is still important, so they start giving 2 doses, each at half-a-plunge, now we have the syringe needle going into the medicine twice as often. :/
planetdarwin 2 years ago
someone will find a way to reuse them... theres always a way...
CradLeRcker 2 years ago 2
It only takes half a second to think of the way... just don't push the syringe all the way to the bottom so it doesn't lock.
canadianmaple09 2 years ago
This is true, but it would take a lot out of circulation by children and inept medical staff.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
Oh yeah, I definitely think it's a good thing, I just think that it won't have quite the effect that Koska thinks it will.
canadianmaple09 2 years ago
I get what you mean. I'm inclined to think he's not deluding himself, but just presenting the product in a friendly forum in its most positive light as a step in the right direction, rather than an effective solution.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
I didn't even know the problem was that bad. I thought they'd have some method of sterilizing things...like boiling water or whatnot. People sortof have the choice of death soon or death not so soon but from something entirely unexpected if that's how hygiene is treated over there.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
lol boiling water does not steralize. It's even worse than burning your finger with a match after being pricked.
CHumga 2 years ago
Boiling doesn't sterilize? Wow, I didn't know that.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
Boiling does sterilize but there are some organisms such as hepatitis that are very hard to kill. HIV is very fragile outside the body but plastic doesn't boil very well. :)
macnutz 2 years ago 2
Hehe that's true about plastic, I hadn't even thought about it...Some plastics can take boiled water but I guess not necessarily boiling in water. Chalk one up for logic :)
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
it kills all the basic bacteria and impurities but all the serious diseases like hepatitis etc stay ripe and strong.
CHumga 2 years ago
I really had no idea, thanks for the clarification.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
This will make it much more difficult, but also it will prompt medical professionals to the issue in a much more obvious and consistent way. It will also make medical reuse something which much more clearly violates procedures that are usually also illegal in many places too.
all in all it puts a big obstacle up for this fringe economy, where lives cost no more than a few pence.
marsCubed 2 years ago
The undervaluation of life is a tragedy.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
This is great, Mr Koska's ideas need to be shoated from the rooftops!
farnium 2 years ago
It is a great idea but first you have to convince local doctors to use them and therein lies the rub.
Poverty is not the only problem in this issue. Culture, thinking habits, and ignorance also play a big role.
China is not a poor country. It currently owns a significant piece of the US economy yet the reuse of needles is very common there. Local governments have a huge role to play in this but they must be convinced of the necessity of curtailing these practices.
macnutz 2 years ago
That is awesome and a genius idea! I really hope countries will start implementing these syringes into their medical offices.
PeeeU 2 years ago
This is a great, shows how simple a solution to big problems can be. People are suffering needlessly.
Shaunt1 2 years ago
noble... yet we must see if it will save more lives then it will take. For those people 5 cents must be a lot if they choose to reuse the it. And medicine price will go up with it. Also free market gives what people want not what people need. If they dont want this solution then it will never work.. we need something better.
princeofexcess 2 years ago
This problem in developing countries could be resolved if autoclaves were more widely available and they made syringes which could withstand the heat and pressure.
Cotoredondo 2 years ago
I don't think that adapting that will prevent people from getting access to regular syringes and reusing them. Even if all the big syringe manufacturers were to adopt the use of these new syringes, there will be many other companies waiting to pounce on the opportunity of making profit on the lack of supply of the original syringes.
hlamp 2 years ago 2
yep probably not all people will use these.
But even it prevented 100 dirty syringe vaccinations, then it'd still be a success and saving lives.
RarewareLover 2 years ago 3
Reusable syringes are NOT the problem. Improper sanitation is the problem. I would NEVER keep a 1-time-use-only syringe in my emergency medical kit. Never. A typical syringe is good for at least 3 injections.
bamboo4tameshigiri 2 years ago 2
simple and beautiful!
ravishethwala 2 years ago
he seems to forget there used to be glass ones!
arabidopsissb 2 years ago
brilliant!
ndjarnag 2 years ago
Thats just insane - there is no way these people should be practising medicene! What the hell are India's leaders doing? They get billions of dollars in aid from the West and spend this money on nuclear weapons and Space programs while the people go hungry and this is going on! What a joke, Britain gives that country 100's millions - we haven't got a Space program ourselves!
andy7666 2 years ago 6
Can i get a fact-check on that?
I thought an economy as powerful as India would not accept foreign aid.
roidroid 2 years ago
bravo BRAVO!!
zeffii 2 years ago
OMG, this is stupid. Give them tools they can use more than once and they need not to resort to syringe recycling.
lakermangmx 2 years ago
1- WTF!?! i had no idea this was going on. at least not this badly.
2- i would like to see one of those syringes, if they contained twice the dose, and where only half emptied before they where re filled, would they still lock and brake? i say this because most of this problem obviously seems to be intentional.
PoisonedAntidote 2 years ago
Pretty good, until someone figures it out and stops pushing it in all the way...
newengland72 2 years ago
Yeah, I was thinking that. It may be that people will find a way around it.
LemonLimeLaughter 2 years ago
brilliant idea
penutwi 2 years ago