Pacemakers not to go with dead, but to developing nations

This can be so painful. Not the tangible way, but the ouch in the heart way. It is a fact that when patients or any individual with a pacemaker dies, their pacemakers go with them. The thing though is that these devices still contain many years of battery power and they go to waste along with the decomposed body (I respect the dead!). So. The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center thought – this isn’t working. They got their smart ass brains together and ‘developed an innovative program to collect and sterilize old pacemakers and deliver them to hospitals in developing countries’. (Can you believe that? Even here they have to give the second hand stuff to the ‘third world countries’! sigh). Anyway, that’s a sweet thought but get this one – the first one of these will be delivered by Doctor Timir Baman, a fellow at the cardiovascular center, to Southeast Asia to explore a partnership with the Vietnam Heart Institute. What irony!
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