At the age of 94, the director of the Center for Health and Disability Technologies of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) died, Rafael Kohanoff.The chemical engineer reportedly died of an infection caused after coronavirus is infected. In addition to being the director of the aforementioned entity, Kohanoff was president of the General Confederation of Industry (CGI), former minister of Social Promotion and Industry and Commerce, collaborated with Raúl Alfonsín was part of the cabinet of Fernando de la Rúa and founded more than ten successful private companies.
In addition, he was popularly recognized as a multifaceted inventor of “simple answers to seemingly complex problems,” said journalist Raúl Dellatorre. He is credited with inventing a device to support canes or a shoe shoe and designing a circuit of devices for the rehabilitation of babies with cerebral palsy. The coordinator and trainer of INTI’s Center for Health and Disability Technologies, Mario Aguilar, said: “He always said that in his youth he wondered how it was possible that there was so much food in the world and so many poor people.”
