MARC

1. Marc Koska
Inventor Of The K1 Syringe
Done by: Jo Jann
Yong Zhuo
Saksham George John
Deepak

2. Introduction To His Life
• Koska attended Stowe School, a boarding school for boys
, in the village of in Buckinghamshire.
• Koska travelled for several years with a short period
working in the City of London. He skied, sailed and
worked his way around Europe, US and the Caribbean. In
the Caribbean he worked as a model maker of scenes of
crime to be used in courts
• As of 2001, Koska lives in East Sussex, England, with his
wife Anna Koska and their three children.

3. His Contributions
• K1 Syringe
• 2008 India Campaign
• His commercial company, Star Syringe

4. Inspiration for K1 Syringe
• In 1984 Koska read a newspaper article predicting the
transmission of HIV through the reuse of needles and syringes.
He studied how drug addicts used syringes in the UK, went to
Geneva to learn about Public Health Policy, visited several
syringe factories, studied plastic injection moulding, and read
everything available on the transmission of viruses like HIV.
Koska concluded that syringe manufacture was the problem.
Outcome
• Koska designed a syringe that could be made on existing
equipment with a small modification. It could be used in the
same way as a normal syringe . K1 syringes cannot be used
again so the patient will have a sterile and safe injection.

5. 2008 India Campaign
• In November 2008, Koska and a SafePoint Trust team led a major
media and public-awareness campaign throughout India in an
attempt to do something about the prevalence of unsafe injections.
They travelled throughout India giving their One Injection, One
Syringe message to the media at press conferences for over a week.
A specially made PSA entitled Sachin was repeatedly shown on
television channels, radio stations and cinemas across the country.
As a result, SafePoint's message achieved widespread coverage
throughout India.
Outcome
• Koska then met with Anbumani Ramadoss, India's State Minister for
Health, who decided to outlaw the use of ordinary syringes, making
auto-disable syringes mandatory throughout the whole of India.

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