Dec 29 2010
The cold chain advancement is an economical method to enhance the vaccination exposure in Africa and TrueEnergy, UK-based engineering company, is revolutionizing its high-performance refrigerators, maintaining thermalconstancies to the areas having unsafe current supplies.
True Energy is marketing their energy-effective refrigerators, employs the company's Sure Chill technology for maintaining the temperatures between 2⁰C and 8⁰C for about 10 days without requiring any power source. This process is attained by virtue of the association of thermal sensing units and phase change of the refrigerator, without demanding power supply. The company spokesman stated that this unique advancement will achieve a patent approval in January 2011.
The process of shipping and keeping a vaccine at regulated temperatures is regarded as cold chain. Inappropriately stored heat-sensitive vaccines shows lower efficiency or are completely useless. Apart from overheating issues, exposure to sub-zero temperatures also reduces the viability of the vaccines which have been reported in a study conducted in 2007.
True Energy is a global provider of vaccine fridges, having 25 years of expertise in social enterprise engineering, supplyingnovel engineering solutions for Third World issues. The Sure Chill refrigerator has gained World Health Organization (WHO) approval for purchase and will be bought firstly by UNICEF, which rest 15% is mainlyprocured by state governments.