Page 31 - Banking Finance June 2020
P. 31
ARTICLE
ROLE OF
TECHNOLOGY AND
INNOVATIONS
AMIDST COVID - 19
A s it is rightly said "The show must go on", it is team of robots alongside humans is helping in taking care
the beauty of human life that we can't stop
of patients, having important conversation , providing useful
living, just by surrendering to the irony of the
information, helping patients in stretching and entertaining
nature. With Corona outbreak becoming
devastative and uncontrollable threat for human life across them too at hospitals. Hospitals are turning to robots to
tirelessly rid room, halls and door handles of viruses and
the globe, Innovation, whether it may be technological bacteria.
alongside of inventing medicine or may be strategic to fight
and get rid of COVID 19, is need of the hour and mother Preferably, Doctors and nurses can control the robot by using
earth .Technology is playing a significant role in strengthening a computer from outside the room, and can hold
world's back in one or the other facets of human life and is conversations with the patient via the screen and camera.
helping the world to move ahead. Let us first see few The robot reduces the number of "touch points" with
innovations round the globe amidst COVID 19 outbreak. patients who are isolated, thereby reducing risk for
healthcare workers, Robotic machines can also be sent to
Use of Robots in Hospitals scan for the presence of the virus, such as when the Diamond
Princess cruise ship cabins were checked for safety weeks
Considered as job stealers, amidst this corona pandemic, a
after infected passengers were evacuated, according to the
About the author US Centers for Disease Control.
Abhinav Jain Mobile Ambulances
Manager Faculty Seeing the Covid 19 outbreak, mobile ambulances which can
STC Gurgaon have access to the affected area , came as a significant
breakthrough for patients at far-flung areas, or not having
BANKING FINANCE | JUNE | 2020 | 31