At a recently held Medical Device Innovation Camp (MEDIC) in Pune, an innovative device named as ‘funjection’ caught the attention of all. It is a device made by a team of students and professor which will help in nullifying the pain of injection for children. The device is designed in such a way that a syringe of the injection is covered with a toy and children are then deceived while they are being injected. The team will soon start with market research and feasibility of launching such a product in the market.
The associate professor at the college of engineering, who was one of the teammates in the team of four people, said, “When a child sees a needle he gets scared. Next time even before visiting the doctor the child starts crying and the drama begins. In order to avoid that it is important to deceive the child. If the injection is hidden in some joy, there will not be any fear in…
