The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) announced the winning participants of 2016 edition of Young Innovators competition. The innovations include devices, applications, pioneering delivery models and design-based solutions that aim to improve the quality of care and patient experience, while also reducing costs.
The winners will showcase their healthcare inventions at the 2016 WISH Summit taking place from 29-30 in Doha.
The winners include, Israa Nasir and Kamil Shafiq, with their ‘Ammi Service’, a voice messaging service to educate women in rural areas about maternal health. Vasundhra Khanna won the award for ‘Bac-Kits’, a home-based testing kit for bacterial infections; while a communication platform for people with speech impairments ,‘OTTAA Project,’ won Costa Carlos the award. ‘Wonder Kit’, a multimedia shirt for monitoring children with autism by Abderrahim Bourouis; ‘Baseer’, an interactive board that helps blind people read and write English and Arabic by Said Alfarei; ‘Meddy’, an online network of doctors in Qatar by Haris Aghadi and Abdulla ElKhenji; and a teaching device to train patients and caregivers about proper diabetic wound care by Malaz Mohamad and Hannah Anderson also won the competition.
The WISH 2016 Young Innovators represent diverse backgrounds, coming from Pakistan, Argentina, Qatar, United States, India, Oman and Algeria. They will showcase their innovations in the Gallery Area, as part of the WISH Summit.
"Pakistan has the highest rate of first-day infant deaths in the world. With the ‘Ammi Service’, we will provide mothers with health information that can save the lives of both the mother and her baby. Using voice messages, we will deliver essential maternal and infant health information to women in even the most isolated rural areas using mobile phones – a tool that 86% of them have,” said Israa Nasir, one of the Young Innovators.
Another WISH 2016 Young Innovator, Abderrahim Bourouis, was a finalist in season eight of the Arab world’s leading scientific ‘edutainment’ TV programme, Stars of Science. His Smart Autism Shirt is set to become one of the projects that will benefit Qatar’s healthcare sector. “My hope is to have ‘WonderKit’ out in the market and to achieve the goal of improving the daily lives of families with autistic children, using this wearable technology,” said Bourouis.
