IIT Guwahati effort for coronavirus leash

The IIT Guwahati is making efforts to develop several state-of-the-art technologies in Assam which include robot-based drug/food carrying unit to work in isolation wards and robot-based screening units to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The IIT-G has been providing scientific support, sophisticated instruments and life-saving equipment to the state government and the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).

“The departments of mechanical engineering and electronics and electrical engineering are making efforts to develop several state-of-the-art technologies which include robot-based drug/food carrying unit to work in isolation wards and robot-based screening units, large and high capacity autoclave machine, hand-held temperature-measuring units, hospital beds, including ICU beds, ventilators, medical waste disposal in the isolation wards, shower for disinfections, WHO-specified masks and hand sanitisers,” a statement released by the IIT-G said on Monday.