Tales from the Missionary Hut: The Oxy Johnny

University are meant to house some of the brightest student, the best of the crème de la crème. After watching the spoof and reading the article concerning the sustainable mask. I have one word HIV. The biggest threat to human health in the third world, the sheer lost of generation after generation to such an illness is unbelievable. This illness would have people believing that the people that the third world needs condoms to protect themselves, rather than squander them in such a fashion. Yes oxygen tanks are difficult to carry around. But why shouldn’t the third world have the best of the best in medical care. After all, the western world heavily depends on them for its natural resources and cheap labour. So we should attempt to come up with better invention for them. To ask the west to use condoms oxygen mask, I am sure will be at the European court of Human Right, arguing how it infringes our Human Rights to proper medical care. So why do we suggest that Africa uses it?

One more thing, the third world those not have an unlimited supply of condoms and if it did why do we keep giving them more?

Oh yeah to stop the spread of STD, with its limited supply they are suppose to make oxygen mask?

People are trying to develop new ideas so as to improve lives of people around the world who do not have access to similar equipments as in developed countries. Invention of the oxy-johnny shows that some things can be made by using materials available in the areas concerned.

This can also be a lesson for charities and government organisations who seek to help poorer nations to look at the resources that they already have and to promote and subsidise what is already present in these areas instead of trying to duplicate their way of life in other areas.

@Nuura I agree it doesn't seem appropriate or wise to be using condoms as an oxygen mask. I'm all for being inventive and resourceful but it is already hard to get hold of for many so this would just be a waste. And it probably wouldn't even work well and be pretty flimsy like you said.

The oxy Johnny video is actually showing that people in the third world should use the materials that they already have to address the big problems. The engineering students of Nottingham University have invented this. In this spoof it’s shown that oxygen masks are not greatly out there for patients form the third world. Therefore the patients should make a mask from condoms. First of all there is the use of condoms, we have all seen the news and the articles about how HIV/AIDS it’s one of the biggest issues and greatest diseases out there. Also that most of those people don’t have the access or the funds to gain condoms. So why would they instead of using it to protect themselves from STD’s mainly HIV/AIDS to make a flimsy oxygen mask? It’s the responsibility of the medical world/doctors to have that basic principle in the hospitals. What the engineering students are actually saying that patients of the developing world are not good enough for proper equipment that we in the West have. Therefore they can have a flimsy condom mask instead, there is no way that we in the West would use something like that. It’s a human right to get a proper treatment and not something that is second rate. Also the engineering students only made a project for a grade, I’m all for any person to make a contribution to the developing world but this is not worth it.

Way to go guys!