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3d Printing In Low Resource Healthcare Settings: Analysis Of Potential Implementations, Alenna Beroza
3d Printing In Low Resource Healthcare Settings: Analysis Of Potential Implementations, Alenna Beroza
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3D printing has gained significant momentum in the past ten years, and its unique advantages make it especially ideal for use in low resource healthcare settings, where many designs have already been successfully implemented. Yet, little has been studied on how 3D printing can be sustainably and functionally implemented in low resource healthcare systems as a manufacturing practice. In this report, three business models are proposed for this implementation: In-House Operator, Independent Operator, and Print Farm. These models were then tested over four months in Kisumu county, Kenya, at two workshops and seven public hospitals. I worked with local medical …