Arm prosthesis
Description
Since 1979 the ICRC has developed a physical rehabilitation programme that encourages the use of context-appropriate technologies, taking into account that the ICRC often operates war-affected and low-income countries or low-income countries. The technology must also be adapted to the needs of patients in those countries. Therefore, the technologies adopted should be: sustainable, comfortable, easy to use and maintain; easy for technicians to learn and repair; standardised but compatible with the climate in different parts of the world; cheap, but modern and in line with internationally accepted standards; and easy to obtain.
Credits
— Unknown, Cambodia, 1999. © International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.
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Arm prosthesis
Description
Since 1979 the ICRC has developed a physical rehabilitation programme that encourages the use of context-appropriate technologies, taking into account that the ICRC often operates war-affected and low-income countries or low-income countries. The technology must also be adapted to the needs of patients in those countries. Therefore, the technologies adopted should be: sustainable, comfortable, easy to use and maintain; easy for technicians to learn and repair; standardised but compatible with the climate in different parts of the world; cheap, but modern and in line with internationally accepted standards; and easy to obtain.
Credits
— Unknown, Cambodia, 1999. © International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.
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Woven pot made of salvaged materials
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
Kleenex box, "Love-Yasmine-2003-ICRC"
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
Composition with butterfly wings
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
Boots of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
Fragment of a car door shredded by a grenade
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
Leg prosthesis in wood and rubber
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
Cardboard reading panel for eye test
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
Dress of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
Flask of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
Tights of a nurse's uniform
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Hat of a nurse's uniform
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Armband of a nurse's uniform
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First aid kit for nurses
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Cup
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First Aid Kit
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Stretcher, first half of 20th century
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Blood transfusion service
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Casualty
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HUMANITY by Henry Leutwyler
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Flag of the Cruz Blanca Neutral Mexicana
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Two columns and a fragment of marble from the Castle of the Materity of Elne
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Bullet received by ICRC delegate Dr Georges Henny
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