Cataracts are the leading cause of avoidable blindness worldwide. India with 32% of cataract blindness cases and Sub-Saharan Africa with 20% account for the majority of cataract cases in the World. With only one ophthalmologist per million people in Africa and a slightly better ratio of one in 100,000 for India, majority of Cataracts go undetected leading to avoidable blindness. Aulus Mobile is a patented revolutionary concept that serves as a portable kit to detect and elaborate on eye cataracts. It is a simple clip-on device that can be mounted on a mobile phone and uses a mobile app to detail out the cataract results of the subject’s eye. With the cost of just $4.99 as compared to the average cost of $1500 for the existing cataract detection equipments, this product will not only make cataract detection affordable for the masses but also avoids the need for doctors to detect cataract, thereby enabling treatment and prevention of cataract blindness, which accounts to roughly 50% of the world’s total blindness cases. In remote areas of developing nations, like Ethiopia, where ophthalmologists cannot be found easily (Ethiopia has only 95 ophthalmologists available for a population of 75million), speedy cataract detection is a far-fetched dream. On an average clinicians with the current cataract detection techniques take at least 15 min to detect cataract where as with Aulus Mobile it takes less than 1 min to detect cataract and that too without a doctor. Visit- eyenetra.com
Impact
Our inexpensive, highly mobile cataract diagnostic technique drastically reduces the cost to detect cataract and eliminates the need for trained clinicians for detection
Link - http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/200
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