--- title: Arthur Zang's Cardio-Pad Helps Africans with Heart Diseases description: Arthur Zang's invention, the Cardio-Pad, is transforming how heart conditions are diagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond canonical: https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5414039/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-10T19:26:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:27:40.291Z og:title: Arthur Zang is Transforming Healthcare in Rural Africa og:description: The cardio-pad is helping those with heart disease og:url: https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5414039/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25dd6de3c7b2efbc/69893be586f68e82d46ea598/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Arthur Zang is Transforming Healthcare in Rural Africa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Arthur Zang is Transforming Healthcare in Rural Africa twitter:description: The cardio-pad is helping those with heart disease twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25dd6de3c7b2efbc/69893be586f68e82d46ea598/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 10, 2018 # Transforming Rural Healthcare > Sponsored content. 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But today his invention, the Cardio-Pad, is transforming the way heart conditions are diagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa, where heart disease is the leading cause of death for adults over 30, and beyond. Zang’s idea came after he was rejected from medical school and decided to study computer science instead. As an intern, he met one of those 50 cardiologists who told him rural patients often had to make expensive and dangerous journeys just to get diagnosed correctly. Zang set about designing the Cardio-Pad, a handheld tablet that physicians in remote locations could use to send scans to cardiologists in the city.  Rudi Geyser for Time It eliminates the need for repeated arduous journeys, spreading hope of treatment to areas where a heart problem could often be a prolonged death sentence—or at least a major economic burden. During development, Zang’s uncle died from a heart attack. “That pushed me to finish the device,” he says. The Cardio-Pad launched in 2016, and is now deployed throughout Cameroon, four other African countries and Nepal. It’s cheap for a hospital-quality medical device, at $3,000, but it didn’t take long for Zang to realize that lots of smaller hospitals couldn’t afford the price. So he started a program in 2017 where CardioPads are distributed for free, with patients paying a low annual fee for access to diagnosis in their own home. He sees it as a small step forward for the inequitable healthcare systems in Cameroon and beyond. “Poor people face many difficult problems in hospital,” he says. “I wanted to help them get better care, wherever they live.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5414039/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5414039/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders/"},"headline":"Arthur Zang is Transforming Healthcare in Rural Africa","datePublished":"2018-10-10T19:26:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:27:40.291Z","description":"Arthur Zang's invention, the Cardio-Pad, is transforming how heart conditions are diagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond","url":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5414039/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders/","keywords":["NGL Articles"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25dd6de3c7b2efbc/69893be586f68e82d46ea598/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Billy Perrigo","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/"}],"creator":"Billy Perrigo","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25dd6de3c7b2efbc/69893be586f68e82d46ea598/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5414039/arthur-zang-next-generation-leaders/","name":"Arthur Zang is Transforming Healthcare in Rural Africa"}}]}] ```