Sharing creative design and production videos on his YouTube channel, Tolga Özuygur shared a video that draws attention to the increasing need for prosthetics after the earthquake disaster and proposes solutions.
After the earthquake disaster that took place in Kahramanmaraş on February 6 and affected 11 provinces, everyone continues to do their best to heal the wounds. Unfortunately, our citizens who were removed from the rubble after search and rescue activities with many health problems can encounter.
One of the most common health problems is the hand, arm, foot, leg, etc. amputation of limbs. It is aimed to improve the quality of life with prostheses provided to people whose limbs were amputated. After the last earthquake we experienced, a large number of people were removed from the rubble, and statements were made that the need for ‘prosthesis’ would increase for a while.
YouTuber Tolga Özuygur also shared a video that draws attention to this need;
Explaining the need for prosthetics in the video, Özuygur explains the necessary materials and explains the stages of producing prosthetic hands. produced by 3D printing and then the assembled parts turn into a functional prosthetic hand.
Özuygur is also in Turkey From Robotel, an NGO that produces prosthetics with 3D printing also talks about. Robotel, which produces prostheses free of charge for people who need hand and finger prostheses, also offers detailed information for functional prosthesis models for different needs and files containing all the details required for production.
You can view Robotel’s website by clicking here, and you can click here to get information about the different prostheses you can produce with 3D printing.
We thank Tolga Özuygur for drawing attention to this important need.
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