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Excerpt“There are more than a billion people around the world who have no infrastructure, no roads, no electricity,” says Manu Prakash, a physical biologist at Stanford and inventor of the new gadget. When he visited Uganda in 2013, he found that clinics either did not have centrifuges or didn't have the juice to power them. “One clinic used its broken centrifuge as a doorstop,” Prakash tells Devin Powell at Nature.QuestionWhat is the author's primary purpose in including the detail about the clinic using a broken centrifuge as a doorstop?(1 point)ResponsesTo illustrate the clinic's resourcefulness in repurposing equipment.To illustrate the clinic's resourcefulness in repurposing equipment.To highlight the severity of equipment shortages in under-resourced medical facilities.To highlight the severity of equipment shortages in under-resourced medical facilities.To criticize the clinic's misuse of valuable medical equipment.To criticize the clinic's misuse of valuable medical equipment.To suggest that centrifuges are obsolete in modern medical practice.

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To highlight the severity of equipment shortages in under-resourced medical facilities.