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...They were resistant to investing in a machine that they wouldn’t be able to fix if it broke,” Ringer said...
...while many of the Vietnamese doctors were interested, says Ringer, they also wondered how they would repair CPAP machines if they malfunctioned and how they would afford replacement parts from the United States or other developed countries if the need arose...
...Ringer then realized that in order to convince Vietnamese hospitals to start using CPAP, he and his colleagues would need to create a form of the technology that could be developed, assembled and maintained within Vietnam...
...engineer who was part of our group, who agreed to actually live [in Vietnam],” Ringer says...
...worked with him on a long-distance basis. In 2002, Evans created a version of CPAP that could be produced and maintained from within Vietnam. The new version costs only $400 to $500 in Vietnam, while CPAP usually costs $6,000 or more in the industrialized world, according to Ringer...