Israeli reservist combat soldier Oz Lotati, 29, experienced firsthand during the Gaza war the challenges and gaps in battlefield medical care for wounded soldiers. An industrial design graduate of the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) near Tel Aviv, Lotati decided to address this critical issue by developing a portable blood-bank “refrigerator” designed to save lives on the battlefield.
“I was on reserve duty from October 7 and couldn’t stay indifferent to what we went through in the field,” he recalled.
“As a design student and a combat soldier, I understood that a well‑designed product can save lives,” he explained.
Lotati revealed that his innovative idea of a portable blood bank was born when he discovered that military logistics did not have any viable solution for carrying cooled blood in a combat zone.
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