Not knowing anything about medicine or medical journals, or the veracity of the claims, here are the links from the FTA

"A good example of frugal innovation is hernia surgery. In India, instead of using commercial mesh to treat hernias in an operation, you can just cut a bit out of a mosquito net, sterilize it with ethylene oxide, and actually it's just as good if not better than the commercial mesh at a fraction of the cost. "

[ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813530 ]

Using a condom for postpartum bleeding..

[ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21879008/ ]

And using Tiliapia Fish skin as treatment for burns

[ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33890902/ ]

This is very interesting. I've always been told that the brazilian public health system was "inspired by" and "modeled after" the UK's and yet they seem to differ substantially more than I'd originally assumed.

> frugal innovation

> just cut a bit out of a mosquito net, sterilize it with ethylene oxide

> just by tying a condom onto the end of a urinary catheter

> using the skin of the tilapia fish, you can treat severe burns, second-or-third degree burns

Now I know for a fact he was a brazilian doctor. :)

Plenty more examples where that came from. Something primary care doctors do regularly: fashion an ear syringe from cheap syringes and cut IV lines for ambulatory cerumen impaction treatments. An actual otorhinolaryngologist taught me how to do it. I've also witnessed another doctor take apart his sphygmomanometer and connect it to something else to use it as a pressure gauge because the hospital just didn't have one. Don't remember what exactly he hooked it up to but it worked.

"Decolonising health care". Somebody should let this bloke know that Brazil is just as colonial as anywhere.