IIT- Madras Startup Develops Foldable And Portable Covid-19 Hospital

MediCAB, the convenient emergency clinic created by IIT-Madras upheld startup Modulus Housing, can be deployed to fight COVID-19 and are easy to ship and cost-effective.

In a significant discovery, a startup upheld by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has built up a portable emergency clinic unit that can be utilized as seclusion focus or for rewarding COVID-19 patients. The IIT-Madras said in an announcement that the compact wellbeing office could be introduced in two hours by four individuals.

As indicated by a report, the convenient unit is called ‘MediCAB’ and is pointedly decentralizing the way to deal with COVID-19 at the local level.

As indicated by the institute, these ‘MediCAB’ have been conveyed in the Waynad region of Kerala to treat COVID-19 patients. The startup Modulus Housing is additionally creating small scale emergency clinics that can be conveyed quickly anyplace in the nation.

The startup Modulus Housing was established by two IIT-graduated classes in 2018. The startup is upheld by the Incubation Cell of IIT-Madras.

The ‘MediCAB’ is collapsible and contains four zones including a specialist’s lodge, a segregation room, a clinical ward, and a two-bed ICU ward. All the room/wards are kept up at negative weight. It is made with pre-assembled structures and telescopic frames that permit the convenient unit to shrink to one-fifth of its real size. This makes the unit simple to move and savvy.

The report likewise recommends that Modulus Housing is taking a shot at a plan where the units can be quickly conveyed as confinement wards for COVID-19 patients. Once the pandemic is finished, these compact units can be changed over into smaller scale emergency clinics and sent to provincial regions lacking clinical foundation.

The announcement from IIT-Madras stated, “India has 0.7 beds per 1,000 people. Advancements, for example, the MediCAB will help support the medicinal services foundation in India as it tends to be quickly shipped.”

As per Shreeram Ravichandran, CEO of Modulus Housing, “The startup has repurposed its secluded prefab structure plans that are essentially implied for lodging to fight COVID-19 pandemic.”