The speaker Jane Chen and her team invented wonderful stuff. It was a new incubator. Although it looks like just a sleeping bag at first sight, it can save lives.
According to her, 20 million premature babies are born every year around the world. They are so tiny that can't keep their temperature warm, so 4 million of them die annually. However, the more serious problem is that the survivors tend to cause long-term health problems like heart disease or low I.Q. Of course if they are kept in incubators, we can avoid these sad consequences. Yet, in developing countries, the number of incubators is absolutely insufficient.
To improve this situation, her team came up with this new incubator. It doesn't require electricity at all unlike traditional incubators. Furthermore, it is much cheaper and much easier to handle. Until they finally invented it, they always tried to understand end users and exerted all their powers into it. She believes it can reduce the infant mortality.
It is a wonderful thing that such a kind of small stuff can save a lot of lives. More than that, however, I was impressed with her. The reason is that it was not common that a young woman like her went to developing countries, tried to understand the people there, and put her heart into saving lives. I got envious of her, who had a great job that she was able to devote her passion.
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