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Internal view of an inflatable medical facility
PT Medical (PT) Solutions offer a variety of portable shelters and mobile field hospitals to enable communities and defense forces to rapidly respond to healthcare requirements and disasters in any location or terrain. Using an integrated network of rapid deployment structure systems that are flexible, sustainable and robust, it creates modular solutions to cater to a wide range of field medical applications. These technological solutions are transportable by tactical, operational and strategic mobility systems. PT Medical Solutions provides innovative end-to-end fixed hospital solutions that can be rapidly deployed in any open area or increase the capacity of an existing hospital. Covid care facilities with all support services in rapid deployment modular inflatable structures may be scaled up as per needs.
Both these start-ups are either setting up new hospitals with beds or enhancing the existing capacity of a hospital to the tune of more than 3500 beds across the country in 54 projects, facilitated by Office of the PSA and supported by various industry CSR partners.
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Environment-friendly recycling technology and value addition of medical waste plastics obtained from PPE kit used during COVID-19 situation: A sustainable approach towards a healthy environment
Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology, SARP-LARPM, Bhubaneswar, in association with Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar is working on an environment-friendly recycling technology and value addition of medical waste plastics obtained from the personal protective equipment (PPE) kits used during the COVID-19 situation.
PPEs play an important role in safeguarding the health workers by minimising their exposure to the external pathogens. The components of PPE include goggles, face-shield, mask, gloves, coverall/gowns, head cover and shoe cover, etc. It is to be noted that biomedical waste is increasing drastically due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and is a big hazard to environmental health worldwide.
The objective of this project includes collection of plastics from COVID waste such as PPE kits and other biomedical items collected in red bins, their disinfection, cleaning and drying by using a selected process and their conversion into value added products for commercial application. The biomedical waste will be fully disinfected and mechanical, thermal, rheological and morphological properties of the recovered plastics will be analysed and compared with its virgin counterparts. Based on mechanical and thermal properties, a recycling blend will be developed and value addition will be performed using other additives, fillers and compatibilisers to improve mechanical and thermal properties. Finally, prototypes will be developed using value added polymers for various targeted applications.
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