LONDON, Nov 21 —Britain called today for international action on the issue of medical devices such as oximeters that work better on people with lighter skin, saying the disparities may have cost lives of ethnic minority patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This is systemic across the world. This is about a racial bias in some medical instruments. It’s unintentional but it exists, and oximeters are a really good example of that,” Javid said during an interview with the BBC. The review will aim to identify where systematic bias and risk exist with current devices and to recommend how the issues should be tackled in the creation of medical devices from design to use, the health ministry said in a statement.Javid said the reason for the discrepancies in accuracy was that a lot of medical devices, drugs, procedures and textbooks were put together in white majority countries.
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