COVID-19 has proven to be both the greatest public health challenge, and the greatest logistical challenge, of the modern era. This exponentially-spreading disease hospitalizes 15-20% of infected patients for weeks at a time, during which hundreds of gloves, masks, face shields, and other medical supply items and pieces of equipment are used to treat every patient. This incredible demand for supplies, combined with a crippled global logistical infrastructure due to the pandemic itself, threatens to leave the entire world short on the medical supplies needed to properly treat the disease. In light of this global supply chain failure, Open Source Medical Supplies (OSMS) was formed to research and disseminate open source plans for medical supplies used to treat COVID-19 that can be fabricated locally. Additionally, Open Source Medical Supplies supports, mentors and guides local communities as they self-organize hospital systems, essential services, professional fabricators, makerspaces, and local governments into resilient, self-supporting supply units. In its first two weeks of operation, Open Source Medical Supplies helped organize 62,000 people all over the world in its Facebook group, supplied plans that volunteers turned into 280,000 medical supply items all over the world, produced an 80+ page long Open Source Medical Supply Guide for COVID-19, and released a Local Response Guide that helped local organizers form 95 local chapters globally. Open Source Medical Supplies teamed up with RESOLVE, Toyota Research Institute, and private donors to stand up a full-time team to help lead a global, distributed manufacturing response to COVID-19. OSMS collaborates with hospitals, non-profit institutions, governments, professional fabricators and makerspaces all over the world to help direct local fabrication response.
Gui Cavalcanti
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Members of the Open Source Medical Supplies Facebook Group
Medical supplies created according to designs from the Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies Guide
Local chapters formed using the OSMS Local Resource Guide
Founder & Co-Executive Director, Open Source Medical Supplies
Co-Executive Director, Open Source Medical Supplies
President and CEO, RESOLVE and Regeneration | Board of Trustees
Meet the Resolve Team
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