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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

Newdigit Electronic Incinerator

One-line solution summary:

Our solution is a low carbon friendly Electronically controlled Incinerator for disinfecting Medical Waste in rural hospitals in Nigeria

Pitch your solution.

medical waste handling in Nigeria is one of the biggest problem in healthcare, as more than 2 tons of medical waste generated are not properly treated before dumping, posing a threat to health workers and nearby community.

Our solution is a low carbon electronically controlled incinerator that disinfect and destroy medical waste at the point of creation. controlling outbreaks and preventing infection.

Our target customers are rural and urban hospitals in Nigeria. But our beachhead focus is private hospitals located in rural district of southern Nigeria with a market size of 2,000.

Our business model is a circular model, where we sell our product as a service with an initial amount of $100 per unit and charge $50 per month as service charge which also cover for maintenance.

Currently we have distributed 2 units of our product with a constant monthly revenue of $100.

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What specific problem are you solving?

We are solving the problem of spread of infectious disease from poor handling of medical waste in Rural and Urban hospitals in Nigeria. The current practice of disposing medical waste in hospitals in Nigeria is the use of conventional trash cans, after which the waste is finally dump in the Bush. The problem with this practice is that waste scavengers, Elderly and Young visits this dump site to scavenge for items and properties. In the process they get in contact with the medical waste and become expose to contagious disease leading to outbreaks. According to the research done by Olufunsho Awodele on Assessment of medical waste management in seven hospitals in Lagos, that was published on NCBI. The medical wastes generated range from 0.116 to 0.561 kg/bed/day, while the total waste is about 215.56 kg/day. Thus, the average generation rate is approximately 0.181 kg/bed/day. ... Soiled cotton wool, swab and gloves were also classified by 69.5 % of the respondents as infectious wastes, dumped poorly. This is a big threat to the society and a serious challenge to both big and small hospitals not only I the rural part of Nigeria, but also in other developing nations.

What is your solution?

Our solution is a carbon friendly electronic affordable efficient incinerators for disinfecting medical waste. It uses hydrogen generated from solar panels via the process of electrolysis to heat up the waste. It is controlled by standalone circuit which is used to open the trail for the waste to be collected, the trail is motorize to move to the burning/heating chamber where the waste products is heated to about 900 degrees, disinfecting and converting the solid waste to a particulate nature. The exhaust chamber has many layers sequestration techniques that removes carbon and other particulate matter from the gas residue. Our solution is solving a big challenge in major hospitals located in both rural and urban regions. It is uniquely different because it uses zero emission solar panels and hydrogen and its controlled electronically which helps reduce contact.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

There are more than 22 Thousand local hospitals in Nigeria mostly located in clustered rural communities that lack pipe born water and rely on nearby river for drinking, washing and bathing. Most medical waste dumped in the usual site gets connected to the river beds during rainfall, putting the entire community at risk of deadly infectious disease outbreaks.

Our solution is a contactless low carbon electronic incinerator design for local and rural hospitals in Nigeria to help them efficiently manage their medical waste in such a way that protect medical staffs, patients and the nearby community from risk of contagion.

Firstly our electronic base tech will prevent surface contact on the door of the incinerator which will help prevent the spread of contagious diseases, secondly and most importantly, our Incinerator treats the medical waste at the point of creation, therefore preventing disease outbreak that mostly occur from polluted community rivers during rainfall and also the scavenging of massive dumping sites.

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge.

Our solution helps to manage and treats the medical waste at the point of creation. It will help prevent disease outbreaks that usually result from dumping of medical waste in a land fill open for scavenging and often times link to Community Rivers. Also during a pandemic outbreak, the effort by the government to curb the outbreak releases more than 2 tons of associated medical waste of infected equipment per day, our solution serve as a pandemic responds to help reduce the Spread of the infectious disease by treating and managing the medical waste at the point of creation.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Edo, Nigeria

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

1. Authority Michael Odili CEO