The ultrasound machine can be powered using conventional electricity, batteries and even solar energy. An electrical engineer helped the team set up solar panels on the roof of one of the hospital’s six outlying health clinics—and the team proceeded to conduct a solar-powered ultrasound on a pregnant woman. This N’Torosso clinic is several miles from any formal power source and has never before had access to a piece of diagnostic equipment."We explained to the people that the initial ultrasound was a pilot and that Dr. Pierre Kamate, whom I spent time training, would be back to the clinic with the equipment soon," says Dr. Marks.
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