Dialysis Machine Invented in Garage Saves Baby’s Life
Baby Millie and Mum
Necessity is the mother of invention.
–Plato
The British nationalized health care system is crumbling.
DBKP has been following the British healthcare crisis, such as births in hallways, foreign doctors who are not only under-qualified, but resentful of Western ways, and a total lack of dental and epistemological care, etc. Yet every once in a while, a story comes along that reminds us that many of the people in the health care profession are there because:
1) They’re not only smart, but because they wish to save lives,
2) they will attempt to do so any way they can.
Here is one such story. A remarkable tale from the BBC.
According to BBC News, little Millie Kelly was born with a condition called gastroschisis where her bowels developed outside her body. During an operation to correct her condition her kidneys began to fail. Since her weight was a mere 6lbs, there were no existing dialysis machines which were small enough to treat a tiny baby. One was needed for Millie’s kidney to be able to “clean” her blood. Without the machine, Millie faced certain death.
It was then that Millie’s doctor, Dr Malcolm Coulthard, and senior children’s kidney nurse Jean Crosier, stepped in and developed a smaller scale dialysis machine in Coulthard’s garage. The machine allowed Millie’s kidney’s to recover enough so that today Millie is a normal two-year-old toddler.
By pat
