Our Aleksandra is a world class innovator: She invented an instrument that will save millions of women (PHOTO)

Aleksandra Petricevic is only 22 years old and she designed a medical instrument that will help millions of women in gynecological examinations. 

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It is an uteroscope , a patent that the French Academy of Sciences proclaimed the invention of the year. With this invention, this young girl will provide painless interventions on the cervix for many women around the world.

The uteroscope is made of plastic and protects against injuries, perforations, bacterial ingestion and pain reduction during gynecological examination.

This young Serbian woman grew up in France, she is a designer of medical supplies, and in cooperation with doctors, but also family members who have already created some patents, has come up with a solution for her invention.

The origin of the idea

- When i graduated from school in France, i searched for my path and i decided to go to medicine because that profession still uses the instruments invented in 1879. I focused on the anatomy of the uterus, as well as the instruments and the current methods, and learned that over 150,000 unofficial abortions were performed in Serbia by very young girls and teenagers. So i found out about the traumatic consequences of some of them and after that i did a lot of research.

- I was shocked with the methods and instruments that exist and i wanted to change that. That's why i tried and struggled to make this patent useful for women. The "Uteroscope" can be used for screening the uterus, but also for more serious interventions, such as curettage of the uterus or a cyst on the womb. We continue to use inhumane and obsolete methods. Some of them have been used since 1879, such as metal dilatators by Hegar. And i am also glad Serbia has heard about my invention, because this innovation for me is a great progress for the women's world - explains Aleksandra.

Foto: Profimedia/BSIP

A number of EU countries, as well as the rest of the world, are interested in the product, and the first uteroscopes have already been shipped to Switzerland. However, Aleksandra chose to start factory production in Serbia.

- My invention is financed by the French Bank for Innovation Development, and the company "PM Inzinjering" from Cacak is engaged for the construction project of special tools and their production, and they give me full support for production of all the elements with their expert team. Production of the uterosope will begin in the company "Spektrum" from Cacak. "Biznis medijacija" is a company that i have chosen and proposed to organize production and exports - says Aleksandra.

Her plan is to produce in Serbia and export all the necessary quantities worldwide with the expansion of capacities that can be in millions, since there are between 300 and 400 million interventions annually on the womb. 

Foto: Profimedia

- I hope that the state of Serbia will help me with some subsidies for production and export - said this 22 year old.

Her family members, who already have patented inventions, helped her in making this patent. 

- My older family members in France have upgraded technology in the field of telecommunications in France in the eighties. All my life they taught me to think only of things that do not exist and which will be used at least by 10 to 20 percent of the population in any area. I've decided for medicine" - says Aleksandra.

Currently she is working on the next patent, a hysteroscope, which will be patented and protected in about a month. And on this patent, the metal part will be replaced by plastic, and the interesting fact is that the one-time instrument will be more favorable by up to 50 percent from the very process of sterilization of instruments that have been used so far repeatedly.

(Telegraf.co.uk)