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First Weekly Update – April 8-14
April 14, 2019 | Leave a Comment
- Prior to this week during our first week on the project, we developed a draft of five sub-problems based on our preliminary research that we would each individually research more about before this week. Those five problems were:
- Lack of adequate sanitation practices
- Lack of adequate healthcare facilities
- Burial ceremony practices
- Treatment for EVD
- Difficulty diagnosing EVD
- Of these problems we’ve decided to focus on the fourth one, treatment for EVD. We came to the agreement that an practical, tangible solutions was most possible in this area.
- We updated the format of this website
- We added a “Project Description” page, where newcomers to our site can get a general idea of what the problem we are tackling is.
- We added a “Team Members” page containing the names and majors of all of the people involved in the project, with their majors listed, so that readers can have some context as to who is constructing the project.
- Started to brainstorms ideas for solving our problem. We discussed specific aspects of treatment of EVD that are challenging to healthcare professionals in DRC, and came up with some rough ideas of what solutions to these problems might look like. By the end of our class session on Wednesday, April 10th, we’d decided to do more research into the specific challenges related to treating EVD so we would know more what is specifically needed.
- Based on further research, on Saturday, April 13th, we decided to focus on protective equipment for medical staff, as that seems like a major concern.
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