Afrigather An invention by a younger entrepreneur in South Africa helps enhance mobility for wheelchair customers. Ernest Mongezi Majenge is named the wheelchair physician. He refurbishes previous wheelchairs and turns them into stair pleasant, off-road transportation. It take Majenge 24 hours to place collectively all of the elements wanted for every mobility product.
“ The key of the wheelchair are the wheels. The wheelchair has been there for years however we solely modified the wheels which has star wheels. We are able to additionally rework it to have the conventional circle wheels that you need to use it on a flat floor. It’s a two in a single wheels.” stated Ernest Mongezi Majenge, 911 The Wheelchair Physician
Majenge’s off-road wheelchairs have already hit the worldwide market with France being the primary nation to soak up orders. In a years time, he hopes to fabricate 10 000 wheelchairs.
“To date we have now in a day we are able to manufacture 4 wheelchairs and it relied on the order we get since it’s a new start-up firm. On the ruby facet, there have been 5 that have been bought in France and in South Africa there have been solely 4.” he stated.
Whereas innovation in manufacturing wheelchairs is a step ahead for selling mobility, a hurdle for some manufactures and customers is the worth tag.
“Clearly we wish robust sturdy wheelchairs however we don’t wish to pay the price of them so we want innovation to convey the fee down and on the subject of upkeep with no matter improvements come, it must be simple to keep up and elements have to be interchangeable.” stated Ari Seirlis, QuadPara Affiliation Board member
In South Africa, wheelchairs can price something between 200 to over 10 000 US {dollars}. Innovators like Ernest Mongezi Majenge consider that there’s a marketplace for extra inexpensive top quality wheelchairs.
