Out of service: Donated medical devices in the developing world
Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center and the director of Infection Control at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, penned a commentary about donated medical devices in the developing world on NPR.com.
"To start with, WHO estimates that 80 percent of the medical equipment in developing countries is donated," Bhadelia wrote. "A 2011 study looked at inventory lists from 16 low-income countries and showed the number of nonfunctional medical equipment in that pool is at about 40 percent."
Though problems exist, developing markets are attractive to medical device manufacturers and drug companies. Africa's pharmaceutical industry, for example, grew from $4.7 billion in 2003 to $20.8 billion in 2013, according to a recent report.
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