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“Mijn vader print armen en benen”, vertelt Mbalu uit Sierra Leone. Deze week vertelt Mbalu, de dochter van Osman over het 3D project in het Masanga Hospital Sierra Leone in het kindertijdschrift: de SamSam “Het is heel bijzonder dat er in een ziekenhuis op het platteland van Sierra Leone een 3D printer staat. De vader van Mbalu […]

Last week we won the Health for All Film Festival – Students special prize of the World Health Organization. Our Dutch-Sierra Leonean teams feel very honored to receive this award. Idrissah and Osman, the local employees of the 3D project at the Masanga Hospital Sierra Leone, were very proud. The upcoming years will be exciting for the […]

The past two weeks I traveled together with Ruud Leijendekkers and Marco Papenburg to Masanga in Sierra Leone to give a course in rehabilitation for prosthetics to the fourth-year Bachelor students physiotherapy.Together with the local physiotherapist Abu Amara and prosthetist Abdulrahman Dumbuya, we introduced the students to prepare the patient and the stump for a prosthesis, the importance of […]

Last weeks ten leg prostheses were made by our 3D team. In the middle of the group picture, you see a selection of the people who received a prosthesis. Joshep is able to work behind his loom again. The prosthesis helps him well since he needs two legs to practice the technique. He does not […]

One and a half years ago, this little boy had to undergo an amputation of his lower leg at the Masanga Hospital Sierra Leone. Last week his family suddenly stood in front of the physiotherapy building. His family heard that we were 3D printing prostheses again in Masanga and asked me to make a prosthesis for […]

Already three weeks in Masanga. Time flies! The first week we had a “small problem” with the inverter of the 3D-printers. So we had to take care of this problem first, before we were able to start 3D-printing. From the start we arrived, several patients were already asking for the prostheses within the Masanga village. Later […]

Als je uit het vliegtuig stapt komt de klamme hitte je tegemoet. Aan de rolstoelen voor de mensen zijn die slechter ter been zijn en uit het vliegtuig geholpen worden, zie je dat je aangekomen bent in Sierra Leone. Het zijn namelijk geen nette rolstoelen die je op een luchthaven zou verwachten, maar lekkere gammele […]

3D Sierra Leone (Foundation 3D Printing in developing countries) is running at full speed! Together with our research group of Technical Medicine, Industrial design, Mechanical engineering, and Biomedical engineering students from the University of Twente, TU Delft, and Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, we are conducting research at the 3D Lab Radboudumc to improve the leg and arm prostheses for […]