Healthcare innovation tinkles with advances, hope and healing.
An inspired and inspiring process that has the people’s welfare
at heart as it presents new concepts, procedures, products, devices,
or services that seek to boost healthcare delivery.
We are referring to desirable and noticeable enhancements in medical procedures,
in patient outcomes and in patient experiences. Healthcare innovation.
Think of pioneers. Professor Mashudu Tshifularo is such a trailblazer.
Doctor Professor Mashudu Tshifularo, a South African medical innovator,
made history in 2019 by effectively performing the world’s first middle-ear
transplant using 3D-printed bones. He developed the treatment of hearing loss.
Doctor Mashudu Tshifularo, a South African educationalist and otolaryngologist,
became the first health expert in the world to positively perform surgery to cure
deafness. An otolaryngologist is an ear-nose-and-throat doctor. An ENT specialist.
In 2000, he became the youngest black ENT professor in South Africa. In 2019,
he piloted the world’s first 3D-printed middle ear transplant. The South African
professor spearheaded the world’s first surgery to restore hearing to a deaf patient.
A milestone! Healthy is healthcare that enhances patient experiences and discoveries.
