3D printing takes prosthetic availability to impoverished communities

A biomedical engineering student from the University of Guelph has utilized 3D printing to produce affordable prosthetics and is intending to take the technology to India to benefit amputees. University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) biomedical engineering co-op student Jerry Ennett has been working on a 3D printed prosthetic hand over the past 3 years in a mission to make prosthetic devices accessible in impoverished communities. The design and technique will be shared with technicians in a remote medical clinic in southern India. When Ennett realized the high costs of prosthetic devices made them inaccessible for poor countries, he envisioned 3D...