Word: vietnamize
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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...
...fellow member of Project Vietnam stepped up to the task of carrying out this challenge...
...engineer who was part of our group, who agreed to actually live [in Vietnam],” Ringer says...
...engineer, Kirk Evans, developed the machine on site using parts available in Vietnam, while members of Project Vietnam and American neonatologists 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...
Once the new CPAP was developed, Ringer, Evans and other members of Project Vietnam had to convince local doctors that the technology actually worked and would be affordable...