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The Cardiopad is now being used in Gabon, India and Nepal
Cameroonian inventor Arthur Zang has won a £25,000 ($37,000) prize for his device which does heart examinations.
The Cardiopad is a tablet computer which takes a reading and sends it to a heart specialist.
It allows health workers to give heart examinations and send the results to heart specialists far away.
BBC Africa’s Mamadou Moussa Ba says there are just 50 cardiologists in Cameroon which has a population of 20 million people.
Mr Zang’s invention was awarded the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.
The results from his Cardipad are sent to a cardiologist via a mobile network and can be interpreted within 20 minutes.
“My uncle died from a stroke after I had already started working on the Cardiopad and this gave me extra motivation to see the project through to the end”, Mr Zang told the BBC earlier this month.
The device is already being sold in Gabon, India and Nepal.
Last year’s winner of the award was Tanzanian chemical engineer Askwar Hilonga who invented a sand-based water filter which absorbs anything from copper and fluoride to bacteria.
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