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Pandemic Healthcare Technologies Underway at Indian
Institute of Technology Kharagpur(IITKGP)
IIT Kharagpur has set up research funding for R&D work related to COVID-19.The Institute submitted a list of projects to the IIT Council last week of which eight projects have been selected.
The researchers would be working on several technologies including design and development of a rapid diagnostic kit; real-time PCR machine, bodysuit for COVID-19 patients; personal protective equipment for healthcare workers and portable shredder integrated with steriliser; Hazmat Suit with forced purified and cooled air circulation for medical professionals; bootstrapping AMBU-bag as an automated ventilator; telemedicine for fighting the viral pandemic; and large-scale production of recombinant proteins for vaccine and testing. An amount of Rs. 50 lakh has been allotted for Phase I of 8 projects towards development of prototypes. For most of these projects, the prototypes are expected to be ready within 3-4 weeks, while a couple of them would take about six months to deliver the results.
Website link:
https://kgpchronicle.iitkgp.ac.in/iit-kharagpur-to-fund-healthcare-technology-development-for-covid-19/
IIT Roorkee start-up develops herbal hand sanitizer to tackle
COVID-19
In an endeavour to minimise the transmission risk of COVID-19 and promote basic hygiene, two students of IIT Roorkee have led the development of preparing more than 150 litres (1500 bottles) of herbal hand sanitizer.The hand sanitizer will be distributed free of cost by Heal-agnostics Innovations Pvt. Ltd., a start- up incubated at TIDES, IIT Roorkee under the aegis of Dr Indranil Lahiri and Dr Debrupa Lahiri, with support from the administration.
An initiative of Siddharth Sharma, a research scholar of Centre of Nanotechnology, IIT Roorkee (also a co-founder of Heal-agnostic Innovations) and Vaibhav Jain, research scholar of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, it is made of 80% isopropanol/ ethanol and comprises of antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory herbal ingredients; it also works as an excellent moisturiser.
Website link:
https://www.iitr.ac.in/Main/pages/Media_Mention.html https://www.ndtv.com/education/coronavirus-iit-roorkee-startup-develops-herbal-hand-sanitizer-to-tackle-cov- id-19-2199462
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