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People Fixing The World: Keeping medicines cool

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Keeping medicines cool

05/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - People Fixing The World, Keeping medicines cool

How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe

How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe.

How enzymes and earthen pots could help keep medicines safe.
 
Access to life-saving medicines often relies on a complex system known as the cold-chain – the refrigerated lorries, store rooms and fridges, which keeps them at the right temperature from the factory to the patient.
 
However, a traditional cold chain runs on electricity- meaning that it’s often difficult to keep medicines and vaccines cold for long enough to reach the remote places and look after them when the electricity supply is intermittent.
 
The food we eat also relies on the cold chain to keep it cool from the farm until it reaches our plates.
 
We meet some of the inventors and entrepreneurs working on cooling solutions, from using enzymes from a special bacteria that make water freeze at a higher temperature, to the earthen pots keeping insulin cool in India.
 
Presenter: Myra Anubi
Producer/Reporter: Craig Langran
Reporters: Mayank Prakash Bhagwat, Daniel Ominde
Production Co-ordinator: Ibtisam Zein
Sound mix: Andy Mills
Executive producer: Tom Colls
Editor: Richard Vadon
 
Image: Alkesh and his insulin (Credit: Mangesh Sonawane, BBC)

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