3D printers give amputees hope of near-normal life

Doctors amputated Ugandan schoolboy Jesse Ayebazibwe's right leg three years ago after he was hit by a truck while walking home from school.

Afterwards he was given crutches, but that was all, and so he hobbled about. "I liked playing like a normal kid before the accident," the 9-year-old said.

Now an infrared scanner, a laptop and a pair of 3D printers are changing everything for Jesse and others like him, offering him the chance of a near-normal life.