Saving Lives One Closure at a Time: A Simple Surgical Kit for Deep Wound Closure in Low-Resource Settings

    Injuries affect more than 50 million people worldwide each year. Often, surgery is the only appropriate treatment. Developing countries suffer from a lack of simple, cost-effective and affordable surgical care and this causes a high rate of preventable deaths.   Innovators of University of Toronto have developed a low-cost, reusable, and easy to use closure kit for large wounds that robustly provides a 100% closure rate. The portable kit can be carried out to patients in any situation and doctors can use the kit in rural villages without hospitals. Minimal technical expertise is required and the device can be used to complement existing"