MeD ROBO – An in-house innovation by ECoR to assist medical staff without physical contact

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | October 07, 2020 IST

Bhubaneswar, Oct 7: In the light of COVID-19 pandemic, ECoR Central Hospital at Mancheswar is now utilising a Medical Robot called Med Robo to assist hospital staff to serve COVID patients and to assist the management of medical wards in serving medicines, food and remote assistance, without any need for physical contact. With the help of this Robot, doctors, nurses and other medical staff will now be prevented from repeatedly wearing PPE kits while entering the COVID wards for routine rounds. It will help them to stay away from the risks of contacting novel corona virus infection. The MeD ROBO is operated through a unique mobile app that has been developed as part of the innovation, supported by the WiFi facility. The MeD ROBO 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 any abnormal high-temperature reading, the MeD ROBO is capable of raising an alarm so as to alert the Hospital staff attending to the patients. There is a provision to sanitize the hand and a sanitizing box with a timer to sanitize mobiles wallets, newspapers etc. This is an in-house innovation by East Coast Railway. Diesel Loco Shed at Visakhapatnam has fabricated this Robot to assist hospital staff to serve COVID patients.  Before being deployed for use in Central Railway Hospital at Mancheswar, the MeD ROBO underwent extensive trials and demonstrations. MeD ROBO fabrication done with 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 wayspeaker 4.         Circuit for sensor-based hand sanitizer unit, thermal scanner. 5.         Timer based 8 W UVC sanitizer box 6.         1 KVA backup power. MeD ROBO features: (i)         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. (ii)        Sensor based hand sanitizer unit for hand free hand sanitization (iii)       Sensor based thermal scanner for taking body temperature. (iv)       UVC sanitizer box to sanitize personal belongings like mobile, spectacle, papers etc. (v)        2-waydevicefor communicating between patient and Doctor/nursing staff. (vi)       360-degree movable camera that can be controlled through mobile or desktop. (vii)      2 stainless steel trays for distributing medicine and food etc This equipment is capable to carry about 15 Kg of items and can be controlled by remote from 30-40 feet distance by seeing its position in a mobile/desktop/physically.  The camera having speaker facility therefore Doctor/nursing staff can interact with the patient and can advise accordingly. The movement of camera to view from different angles can be controlled through mobile/desktop. One sensor-based hand sanitizing unit is attached with the equipment so that the staff and patient can sanitize his/her hand before and after using Oximeter and other items. The available trays can be used for hand free distribution of food, tiffin, medicines and other items as per the requirement of Central Hospital at Bhubaneswar.

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