VITALIGHT

 

As a person living in the United States, you most likely have multiple light bulbs in your home. It allows you to continue your daily activities even after it gets dark outside. Light is such a simple thing, yet we depend on it so heavily. Imagine trying to read a book in the dark, would you be able to do it? Now imagine you are a doctor in a third world country such as Uganda, trying to perform a surgical procedure on a patient. Reading in the dark may be difficult, but performing an invasive medical procedure in pitch black darkness is near impossible. This may seem like a farfetched scenario, but it is actually a common scenario in many rural areas of third world countries.

 

In low resource countries like Uganda, citizens are victims of highly unreliable lighting, due to an unreliable power grid. Hospitals in these areas experience frequent blackouts and brownouts, which are a huge problem for doctors who are trying to perform surgery, read x-rays, or conduct medical testing. What these hospitals need is a reliable lighting system that can be used in the case of a blackout, so that doctors can continue treating patients. That is where we come in.