Abstract
Proper sterilization of reusable medical devices and surgical instruments are critical aspects of modern health care delivery system that can also directly affect the patients. In off grid health centers and health posts, solar autoclave can have great contribution to facilitate modern heath care delivery by sterilizing medical infected equipment and reduces associated health risks. This research has developed a solar thermal based autoclave and analyzed its performance. The numerical and experimental results have validated with standard sterilization techniques and show successful and efficient results. The laboratory and community trial of the autoclave achieved temperatures of about 145°C and it was maintained it for more than 20 minutes that complies the sterilization process and procedures that has proved by the sterilization monitoring techniques. The field trial of the system was an encouraging comment to promote the technology and disseminate the technology. Keywords: Solar autoclave; Autoclave performance testing; Solar sterilization; Rural health post; Off grid sterilization.
Highlights
The energy poverty in developing countries is a challenge in the health sector to provide proper service and control the dissemination of disease because of infected medical appliances
Unsterilized medical devices can infect patients and diseases can spread throughout health cares (Sarah Trabia, 2012)
The results show that the solar autoclave is achieved the required sterilization process
Summary
The energy poverty in developing countries is a challenge in the health sector to provide proper service and control the dissemination of disease because of infected medical appliances. In such environments, it is difficult to provide good healthcare. The availability of medical devices such as medical sanity equipment and reliable clean energy to use the medical equipment’s safely are main challenges in the developing world. Such difficulties are causing many people in these countries to be infected with different kinds of communicable diseases (Heuck et al, 1991). The rural communities have low access to energy, both for subsistence and productive purposes, and rely almost entirely on biomass fuels (Samuel and Momona Ethiopian Journal of Science (MEJS), V10(2):163-179,2018 ©CNCS, Mekelle University,ISSN:2220-184X
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