Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras’ (IIT-M) incubated start-up has launched portable hospitals, the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government said on Sunday.
The technology helps building a 100-bed extension facility in just three weeks. “MediCAB hospitals are designed with a dedicated zone of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) that can accommodate various life-support equipment and medical devices. These negative pressure portable hospitals have durability of around 25 years, and they can also be shifted in the future for any disaster response in less than a week,” the office of the PSA was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
These rapidly deployable hospitals will plug major health infrastructure loopholes in India’s battle against COVID-19, particularly in rural areas and smaller towns, the office of the PSA added.
The initial batch of 100-bed hospitals is being commissioned at Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh); Amravati, Pune, and Jalna (Maharastra); Mohali (Punjab), and a 20-bed hospital at Raipur (Chhattisgarh). Bengaluru (Karnataka) will have one each of 20, 50 and 100 beds in the first phase, reported the agency.
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