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IIT Madras supported start-up Modulus Housing has developed a portable hospital unit called ‘MediCAB’.
About Project MediCAB:
- Project MediCAB is an initiative of the Office of principal scientific advisor and IIT Madras.
- Purpose: It is a portable hospital unit that has been developed to boost healthcare infrastructure by assisting states to set up COVID-19 extension hospitals.
- The project is a decentralized approach to detect, screen, identify, isolate and treat COVID-19 patients in their local communities through these portable microstructures.
- Features:
- The portable hospital is foldable. It is composed of four zones- an isolation room, a doctor’s room, a twin bed ICU, maintained at negative pressure, and a medical room/ward.
- The hospital can be easily assembled in eight hours by four people. Further, when folded the unit can be reduced five-fold which makes it very cost-effective for transportation.
- Significance: Innovations such as MediCAB will help in boosting the healthcare infrastructure in India as it can be rapidly transported. The hospital can be deployed at any place and at any time.
Source: DDNews
