Old Samsung Galaxy phones are recycled into medical devices
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April 09, 2021 12:26 IST
Samsung says the recycling initiative diverts e-waste from landfills to units making medical devices for underserved communities
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The smartphone captured images, and the Galaxy device used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse images for ophthalmic diseases.
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Samsung says the recycling initiative diverts e-waste from landfills to units making medical devices for underserved communities
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Samsung Electronics is recycling its old Galaxy smartphones into healthcare equipment for people underserved people in India, Morocco, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. Old phones will be remodelled as eyecare equipment to screen patients with eye diseases, the company said in a statement.
Tech giant Samsung Electronics is repurposing its old Galaxy smartphones into medical diagnosis cameras to enable greater access to ophthalmic healthcare in India, Vietnam, Morocco and Papua New Guinea.
Samsung partnered with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and Yonsei University Health System (YUHS) in Korea to create medical devices that screen for eye disease by using Galaxy smartphones that are no longer of use, a statement said. This Galaxy Upcycling program is helping to address approximately 1 billion global cases of vision impairment that are preventable with proper diagnosis, it added. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 2.2 billion people have a form of vision impairment and almost half of these cases were preventable or have yet to be addressed. There is a large disparity in the prevalence of vision impairment depending on the affordability and availability of eye care services.
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Samsung on Wednesday introduced a device called the Eyelike fundus camera that is designed to transform older Galaxy smartphones into ophthalmic equipment that can help diagnose eye diseases. The new device is developed under the Galaxy Upcycling programme that aims to repurpose older Galaxy smartphones into medical diagnosis cameras. Samsung also expanded its Galaxy Upcycling programme to India as well as Vietnam, Morocco, and Papua New Guinea. The programme was introduced in South Korea back in 2017 to u