Student Invents Self-Sanitizing Door Handle For Hospitals, Receives Award From Prime Minister

Student Invents Self-Sanitizing Door Handle For Hospitals, Receives Award From Prime Minister

Student Invents Self-Sanitizing Door Handle For Hospitals, Receives Award From Prime Minister Jamaica’s University of Technology alum Rayvon Stewart grew up in a poor, rural farming community called Mount Prospect. Along with his cousin, the now 30-year-old software engineer was the first in his family to go to college. In school, Stewart discovered his love of inventing, but it wasn’t until he was 23 and volunteering at a hospital that he realized he could solve a real problem with his designs. It was this time in healthcare facilities that led him to invent a door handle that could disinfect itself after every touch. He calls it Xermosol. Stewart (second from the right) at a product launch for the self-cleaning door handles. Photo courtesy of Xermosol “I saw how patients were suffering, the assistance that they needed, and how difficult it was for the nurses,” Stewart told The Guardian. Xermosol is a pioneering ultra-violet self-sanitizing door handle, which Stewart says can kill 99.9% of…