Bhubaneswar: In the light of COVID-19 pandemic, ECoR Central Hospital at Mancheswar, here is now utilising a medical robot called Med Robo to assist hospital staff to serve the patients and manage the medical wards in providing medicines and food without physical contact.
With the help of the robot, doctors, nurses and other medical staff do not have to repeatedly wear PPE kits before entering the COVID wards for routine rounds. It will help them stay away from the risks of contracting the infection.
The MeD ROBO is operated through a mobile app that has been developed as part of the innovation, supported by the WiFi facility. It supports sensor based features, which are capable to read patients’ body temperature and transmit the same for display on the mobile phone. In case of high temperature reading, the MeD ROBO is capable of raising an alarm so as to alert the staff attending to the patients.
This is an in-house innovation by East Coast Railway (ECoR) and was fabricated at Diesel Loco Shed at Visakhapatnam. Before being used in Mancheswar Hospital, the MeD ROBO underwent extensive trials and demonstrations.
MeD ROBO Fabrication:
1. Remote controlled driving unit
2. Stainless sheet, rod, square bars and acrylic sheet for body and trays.
3. Night vision Camera (2 MP HD) with 2-way speaker
4. Circuit for sensor-based hand sanitizer unit, thermal scanner.
5. Timer based 8 W UVC sanitizer box
6. 1 KVA backup power.
Features:
- Remote control driving unit for movement in all directions by monitoring physically or from mobile or desktop. Can be controlled from 30 – 40 ft. distance.
- Sensor based hand sanitizer unit for hand free hand sanitization
- Sensor based thermal scanner for taking body temperature.
- UVC sanitizer box to sanitize personal belongings like mobile, spectacle, papers etc.
- 2-waydevicefor communicating between patient and Doctor/nursing staff.
- 360-degree movable camera that can be controlled through mobile or desktop.
- 2 stainless steel trays for distributing medicine and food etc
This equipment is capable of carrying about 15 kg of items and can be controlled by remote from 30-40 feet by seeing its position in a mobile/desktop/physically. The camera having speaker facilitates doctors and nursing staff to interact with the patient.
