“I hope I can heal my right hand too.“You can design something that can suit this patient and is very specific to the activity of the patient,” Moreau said.It has also benefitted people born with deformities, such as seven-year-old Palestinian refugee Asil Abu Ayada from the Gaza camp northwest of Amman.Several organisations have developed 3D printing for amputees in recent years, but MSF says its project is a first in the Middle East.She lives with five brothers and her parents in a mud house, and was born without a right hand.The 3D devices range in cost from USD 20 and USD 50 (euros) — a fraction of the cost of conventional prosthetic devices, which can cost thousands of dollars.“The new prosthesis has given me hope to be able to go back to work and take care of family expenses,” he said.The new technique was developed by MSF in collaboration with “Fab Lab”, a digital manufacturing laboratory in Jordan.The MSF Foundation, a wing of the charity dedicated to research and development, set up a prosthetics production centre in Jordan’s Irbid last June.” The 3D printing technique allows the team to create simple upper limbs without moving parts, slashing the costs of manufacturing advanced, custom-made prosthetic limbs, according to MSF.Project coordinator Pierre Moreau said it had treated 15 Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis, Palestinians and Jordanians since its launch.Wearing jeans and a dark green shirt, he said he had been transferred from Mosul to a hospital in the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil before heading to Jordan.“We chose Jordan because we have one of the biggest hospitals and most advanced, and it is a stable place in the middle of a war region so we have access to patients from Syria, Iraq and Yemen,” he said in English.
Too shy to speak to reporters, she sat manicuring her artificial fingers with the help of her sister Ines.“Now I feel better,” he said, managing a small smile. end-of Tags: health, disabled, 3d printed, prosthetic limb Related Stories3D printed turtle eggs to be used to detect poaching3D-printed arm comes as the perfect Christmas gift for powerful stainless steel citrus juicer Manufacturers boy born without a hand3D-printed ear implants can help treat hearing loss better.The 22-year-old is one of a group of Iraqi, Syrian and Yemeni amputees to benefit from a 3D-printing prosthetics clinic at a hospital run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF).The data is entered into a system that designers use to create a virtual model of the limb, which is then printed and sent to MSF’s Al-Mowasah hospital in Amman for fitting.AFP Published: Feb 22, 2018, 7:30 pm IST Updated: Feb 22, 2018, 7:30 pm IST A team of medics and technicians use the technique to help people born with genetic deformations as well as war wounded.The clinic aims to give orthopaedic care to as many people as possible affected by the region’s conflicts. His right hand was also seriously wounded.Another beneficiary was Ibrahim al Mahamid, from Daraa in southern Syria, who suffered injuries to his left hand in a bombing raid in 2013.A team of medics and technicians use the technique to help people born with genetic deformations as well as war wounded from across the region.A 33-year-old taxi driver, he had the hand amputated at a field hospital in Syria before moving to Jordan.With her new prosthetic hand, she can now go to a normal school and even sketch drawings.“It’s not easy to replace a hand, but at least the new device gives me some autonomy and means I don’t rely too much on my brother to eat,” said Abdullah, who asked not to use his real name. Doctors start by taking photos and measurements and sending them to the laboratory in Irbid (Photo: AFP) Amman: Iraqi soldier Abdullah lost his left hand fighting the Islamic State group but now he has a prosthetic one — thanks to a 3D printing lab in Jordan.Doctors start by taking photos and measurements and sending them to the laboratory in Irbid, 100 kms north of Amman.Abdullah was wounded in a mine blast as Iraqi forces battled to oust the jihadists from Iraq’s second city Mosul last year.
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