{"id":25187,"date":"2020-07-18T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=25187"},"modified":"2020-07-18T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:56:09","slug":"iit-madras-start-up-develops-portable-covid-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/iit-madras-start-up-develops-portable-covid-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Madras start-up \u2018develops\u2019 portable Covid hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Indian Institute of Technology, Madras a start-up incubated has developed a portable hospital. The students involved in the project say the modular structure can be installed anywhere within two hours by just four people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Called \u2018MediCAB,\u2019 the portable structures can be used to screen, isolate and treat COVID-19 patients even in remote locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students involved in the project say the modular structure can be installed anywhere within two hours by just four people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MediCAB\u2019 has been launched recently in Wayanad District of Kerala where the units are being deployed to treat COVID-19 Patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The startup is developing micro hospitals that can be deployed rapidly across the nation. The Medicab is foldable and is composed of four zones \u2013 a doctor\u2019s room, an isolation room, a medical room\/ward and a twin-bed ICU, maintained at negative pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This deployment in Kerala has been undertaken with grant funds from Habitat for Humanity\u2019s Terwiliger Centre for Innovation in Shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The startup collaborated with Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology who provided inputs on the certifications and customizations necessary for the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Indian Institute of Technology, Madras a start-up incubated has developed a portable hospital. The students involved in the project say the modular structure can be installed anywhere within two hours by just four people. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Called \u2018MediCAB,\u2019 the portable structures can be used to screen, isolate and treat COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":25188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[1172],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-25187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-indian-institute-of-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25189,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187\/revisions\/25189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25187"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=25187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}