During the eight-day war between Israel and Gaza in 2012, a Palestinian-Canadian doctor was helping out in one of Gaza’s main hospitals and couldn’t believe that the emergency room doctors only had two stethoscopes to share.
Back home in London, Ontario, Dr. Tarek Loubani decided to do something about it, and has designed a low-cost stethoscope using a 3-D printer, the first in a series of inventions he hopes to roll-out to help tackle Gaza’s medical supply shortage problem.
