Saving mothers and babies

People Fixing The World by BBC

Sep 1, 202623:16News & Politics

In 2017, Spanish engineer Pablo Bergasa began an unusual hobby: to design a new incubator for use in African hospitals. Eight years on, he has sent 200 of his machines around the world, and he estimates they have saved t...

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