Team:CCU Taiwan
CCU_Taiwan
Welcome to iGEM 2017!
We are CCU_Taiwan from National Chung Cheng university in Chiayi, Taiwan
We apologize for the unpleasing appearance of this wiki page.
Taiwan, having one of the finest health insurance systems in the world, it has some issues nowadays. Established in 1995, the health insurance has been covering people for over 20 years, on the one hand saving money and lives, but on the other hand costing a significant amount of government funding at the same time. This glamorous system, as a matter of fact, leads to lots of serious problems, for instance, fiscal deficits for the government, hospitals forced to cut budgets, doctors getting less payment, etc. (et cetera). Those problems are causing our medical system to go downhill. So this year, we want to do our part to make a small improvement in this serious situation.
We aim at cavity. Cavities, a well known and familiar disease in everyday life, it is actually an easily ignorable health insurance cost in Taiwan. It only amounts to 1.6% of the whole health insurance cost, which seems to be a really small amount, right? But do you know the exact number? In fact, it costs Taiwan 5 billion US dollars per year. What an enormous and horrifying number that is. This is why our team wanted to attack cavities, allowing people to care for and check their own oral condition regularly in order to maintain health and also reduce health insurance cost at the same time. Now, allow me to proudly introduce our product, the Carindex.
