Below is a picture of our next-prototype lamp head, in case you didn't get a chance to see it:
Also, I looked over Abigail's thesis for background information and this is what I found:
She visited 3 regional hospitals and ten health clinics in Ghana/Uganda, and from these trips claims that "due to the unreliability of electrical energy there have been cases of deaths in surgery and delivery wards.” She then shares several anecdotes concerning complications caused by surgical lighting failure during power outages, but has no numbers or data to show how often this is actually happening.
She also claims that the electrification rate (percent of population that has electricity) in Uganda is 10%, and states that this is similar to most low HDI countries, where electrification rates range from 2-50%, with reliability at or below 50%.
This graph below was also contained in her thesis. I am unsure of its source, but it shows how often power outages occur in Uganda, and could definitely be helpful when we are looking for more quantitative data to prove our cause.
-Melissa
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