The Happy Pod: The portable incubator saving lives in a war zone
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, happy news listeners. My name is Anatoli. I'm happy to bring you happy news from Uganda. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Kerry with some happy news of Herok's in Taiwan. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, I'm Brett and I've got some good news about the Great Parry Reef. |
| 0:14.6 | This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday, July 15th, |
| 0:28.1 | the revolutionary incubator saving babies lives in war zones and beyond. |
| 0:33.2 | When you get pictures back from the field of a child that's actually been impacted by something |
| 0:37.4 | you've done, it's special. It's something no one can take away from you. |
| 0:41.5 | The man who has deduced that humans have been kissing a lot longer than we once thought. |
| 0:46.1 | African warning drums and modern technology, the inspiration that led to an award-winning invention. |
| 0:51.9 | Really making sure that your impact is felt while you live on this planet is really coming to |
| 0:58.8 | reality and that gives us so much joy. Also, what happens when artists from 90 countries meet in Norway? |
| 1:07.2 | The idea that you're not alone. So I think that was like what I learned. We all, we all long for that. |
| 1:13.6 | And we begin with a solution to a life or death problem. Around the world, one in every 10 babies is |
| 1:26.0 | born prematurely. They are incredibly vulnerable. But most can be saved with appropriate interventions |
| 1:32.7 | including the warmth of an incubator. James Roberts was a student when he came up with his |
| 1:37.6 | incubator inspired by a documentary about Syria. Its special design makes it possible to use in |
| 1:44.3 | otherwise impossible situations and it's now in service in Ukraine where it's played its part |
| 1:49.8 | in saving well over a thousand babies. His mom incubator was recognised this week by the Royal |
| 1:55.6 | Academy of Engineering and he explained what makes his design different from the traditional model. |
| 2:01.0 | They're massive, huge pieces of kit, take a blood space. They're very heavy, |
| 2:06.3 | complicated pieces of equipment. What we've done is taken the same type of therapy and put it into |
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