Lubbeek company wins award for clothes adapted to patients
The PRoF Award for innovation in health-care products has gone to INGA Wellbeing for its clothing adapted to the specific needs of patients
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INGA Wellbeing was rewarded for providing clothing adjusted to specific needs of patients. The company makes clothes, for example, with discreet openings or with parts that can easily be removed for medical examinations. This way, patients can have treatments or go through examinations without having to remove all their clothes.
The award, worth €10,000, is an initiative of the care think-tank PRoF, which is short for Patient Room of the Future. The organisation, which specialises in supporting the development of adapted patient rooms and residences, was founded by Jan Van Hecke, managing director of the Poperinge-based Boone Wallbeds International, together with partners from the local business and non-profit sector. PRoF created a chair at UGent in 2014 to encourage innovation in the health-care sector towards the improvement of quality care.
Several European organisations participated in the contest. Last year, the award also went to a Flemish organisation: a retirement community in Mol that developed a device that integrated an indoor bicycle with video screens that project images of streets on which the residents used to live while they cycle.
Photo: Staff from INGA Wellbeing of Flemish Brabant pick up their reward for designing adaptable fashion
© Courtesy UGent
