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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (11)1/25/1998 6:37:00 AM
From: John Mansfield   of 618
 
The Guardian: 'The developing world is in danger from equipment donated in health aid programmes'

'Killing with kindness The developing world is in danger from equipment donated in health aid programmes, writes Dan Jellinek'

The Guardian
Thu, Jan 22 1998

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Patients in hospitals and clinics across Eastern Europe and the developing world will be injured or killed when their outdated medical technology malfunctions in 2000, according to a report commissioned by the Romanian Association of Nursing.

The report, due to be completed this week by Chris Dowd, senior lecturer in multimedia at the University of Sheffield, claims that much of this equipment contains embedded, date-sensitive chips and was sent to the poorest parts of the world as health aid.

'Awareness of these problems is low even in the developed world, but it will be a lot worse in poorer countries. There is little hope they will even know how the equipment works,' he says. 'Another problem is the difficulty of tracking what aid has gone where.' It may be possible to trace aid donated by larger bodies such as the International Red Cross, but equipment from independent philanthropic donors is more difficult to find. 'When the crisis broke in Romania 10 years ago, there were appeals on the news and people just filled up lorries with equipment and went,' says Dowd.

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