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START-UP SPOTLIGHTS
IIT Madras start-up’s efforts to develop ‘Portable Hospital Unit’
With a contagious disease such as COVID-19, it is essential to have smart health infrastructure to screen, contain, and treat people. Unlike urban areas, rural areas do not have plenty of existing infrastructure that can be converted to hospitals. There it is difficult to construct buildings from scratch as the requirement is immediate.
Wells Fargo, an American multinational financial services company, is providing funding support to an IIT Madras-incubated start-up called Modulus Housing to tackle this problem. The start-up has developed a portable hospital unit that can be installed anywhere within two hours by four people.
Called ‘MediCAB,’ it is a decentralised approach to detect, screen, identify, isolate and treat COVID-19 patients in their local communities through these portable microstructures. It is foldable and is composed of four zones – a doctor’s room, an isolation room, a medical room/ ward and a twin-bed ICU, maintained at negative pressure.
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Oxygen concentrators developed by Oxyheal Pvt Ltd
Oxyheal Pvt Ltd, incubated at Kongu Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, has developed oxygen concentrators that use Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to treat chronic wounds, which are wounds that do not heal over a long period of time.
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