Category: COVID19

May 21 2020: Meenakshi Hospital, the largest multispecialty hospital in Thanjavur and a part of Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre, Madurai, has designed a cost-effective purifying respirator system that provides 100% protection from Covid-19 infection for surgeons and other healthcare professionals in operation theatres. 

This ingenious design, the first in the world, is named Tanjore Air Purifying Respirator (TAPR). Essentially, the system securely delivers compressed medical grade compressed air, already available in operation theatres for administering anesthesia and operating pneumatic drills, to healthcare professionals through a hood.

A TAPR unit can be set up at as low as Rs 3,000 per person. In comparison, the conventional air purifying system, known as Power Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR), costs Rs 1.2 lakhs per person.

Commenting about TAPR, Dr Guru Shankar, Chairman, Meenakshi Hospital, said, “Experts are of the opinion that the novel coronavirus – SARS CoVID -19, is going to be there for a long time. Hence, the likelihood of a surgeon having to perform an elective surgery such as hip replacements or cataract extraction and other common, emergency surgeries on a patient who is infected with Covid-19 is going to be more. In this context, there is a need to provide personal protection equipment for all healthcare professionals who will be present in Operation Theatres during surgeries. 

While surgical masks can block large droplets, they cannot provide a reliable level of protection from inhaling smaller airborne particles. Today healthcare professionals use N95 respirators that can filter out over 95% of airborne particles that are as small as 0.3 microns. For a higher level of protection, they use PAPR systems. Though a PAPR is safe and reusable, there is a risk of contamination. However, TAPR supplies the users with medical grade air from a central compressor located far away from the operation theatre. Hence it guarantees 100% protection.” 

Comparing the mechanism of TAPR with PAPR, Dr Kesavamoorthy Bhoopalan, M.D, D.M., Senior Consultant – Cardiology, Meenakshi Hospital, Thanjavur, who designed the new system, said, “Our objective with TAPR is to come up with a cost effective yet improved air purifying system. The conventional PAPR takes air from the Operation Theatre and cleans it using a filter before sending it to the user. But TAPR uses air that has gone through multiple filters and frequent quality checks. It is like operating amidst the desert storm of Sahara with fresh air supply from Switzerland.

There is no chance of contamination. Unlike PAPR that requires meticulous cleaning after every procedure, TAPR requires no cleaning at all. Further, PAPR runs with a battery and hence needs constant recharging. But TAPR can work endlessly as there is no battery. PAPR is bulky because it has many components but TAPR with just an air flow regulator and a simple long tube is weightless. Healthcare professionals can wear operation theatre gowns comfortably over TAPR.

Talking about how TAPR achieves cost effectiveness, Dr Kesavamoorthy said that “”TAPR uses already existing infrastructure for the delivery of much cleaner medical grade air at the place where it is very critical. PAPR per person would cost about Rs 1.2 lakhs. However, TAPR with an imported hood costs Rs 17000, and the same with an Indian hood could cost as low as Rs. 3,000 – about forty times lower than the cost of PAPR.

He explained that when the medical grade compressed air is available in the operation theatre, all that the hospitals have to procure is a hood – either imported or Indian made. Any biomedical engineer can assemble TAPR without much effort. Meenakshi Hospital is not planning to patent the design. It intends to make the design open for any hospital to use it at this critical moment. The hospital is planning to invest in manufacturing hoods in India and deliver them to hospitals to assemble TAPR at low cost.

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ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು: ದೇಶದ ಮುಂಚೂಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಫುಡ್-ಟೆಕ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಹಂಗರ್ ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಹರಡುವಿಕೆಯ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಪರಿಹಾರ ಕಂಡುಕೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಸೌಮ್ಯದ ಆಹಾರ ಸುರಕ್ಷತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಮಾನದಂಡಗಳ ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರ(FSSAI),ಡಬ್ಲೂಎಚ್‌ಒ (WHO) ಮತ್ತು ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಸೇತು ಆ್ಯಪ್ ಬಳಕೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಕ್ಯಾಫಿಟೇರಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಹರಡದ ಹಾಗೇ ಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ಕೈಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

“ಹಂಗರ್ ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ ನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಹರಡುವಿಕೆಯ ತಡೆಗೆ ಐದು ಹಂತದ ವಿಧಾನವನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ, ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ, ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಮತ್ತು ಸಂವಹನ, ನಿಗದಿತ ಮೇಲ್ವಿಚಾರಕ ತರಬೇತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಅಡಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ವರ್ಧಿತ ಪ್ರೋಟೋಕಾಲ್ ಗಳಂತಹ ಅಂಶಗಳನ್ನು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆಯ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಠಿಣ ಪರಿಶೀಲನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕೆಫೆಟೇರಿಯಾ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆಗಳ 360 ಡಿಗ್ರಿ ನೋಟವನ್ನು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ಟೆಕ್-ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ಮಾನಿಟರಿಂಗ್ ಸಿಸ್ಟಮ್ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಕೆಫೆಟೇರಿಯಾ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆಗಳು” ಹಂಗರ್ ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ಸಿಇಒ ಮತ್ತು ಸಹ-ಸಂಸ್ಥಾಪಕ ಸಂದೀಪನ್ ಮಿತ್ರಾ ಹೇಳಿದರು.

ಕೆಫೆಗಳು ದಿನವಿಡೀ ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ನಿರಂತರ ಹರಿವನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತವೆಯಾದರೂ, ಸಾಂಸ್ಥಿಕ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಕೆಫೆಟೇರಿಯಾಗಳು ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ 1:17 ಕ್ಕೆ ಗರಿಷ್ಠ ಹರಿವನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸುತ್ತವೆ ಎಂದು ನಮ್ಮ ಡೇಟಾ ತೋರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಜನಸಂದಣಿಯನ್ನು ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿ ನಗದು ವಹಿವಾಟು ಸಹ ವೈರಸ್ ಹರಡುವ ಅಪಾಯವನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. 

ಕೆಫೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಡಿಕೊಂಗೆಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಲು ಈ ಪರಿಹಾರವನ್ನು ಸಹ-ರಚಿಸಲು ಅಪಾಯಗಳನ್ನು ತಗ್ಗಿಸಲು ಮತ್ತು ಆಹಾರ ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಪ್ರಸರಣದ ಅಪಾಯವನ್ನು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಇತ್ತೀಚಿನ ಎಫ್‌ಎಸ್‌ಎಸ್‌ಎಐ ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಅನುಗುಣವಾಗಿ ವರ್ಧಿತ ಸುರಕ್ಷತಾ ಕ್ರಮಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆಯ ಕಾರ್ಯವಿಧಾನಗಳನ್ನು ಕಾರ್ಯಗತಗೊಳಿಸಲು ನಾವು ನಮ್ಮ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇವೆ ಎನ್ನುತ್ತಾರೆ ಮಿಶ್ರಾ.

ಪರಿಹಾರದ ಭಾಗವಾಗಿ ನಿಗದಿತ ಎಫ್‌ಎಸ್‌ಎಸ್‌ಎಐ ಮಾನದಂಡಗಳ ಆಧಾರದ ಮೇಲೆ ಅಡಿಗೆ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆಗಳು ಕಚ್ಚಾ ವಸ್ತುಗಳ ನಿರ್ವಹಣೆ, ಆಹಾರ ತಯಾರಿಕೆ, ಅಡಿಗೆ ನೈರ್ಮಲ್ಯ ಮಾನದಂಡಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಆಹಾರ ಸಾಗಣೆಯನ್ನು 11 ವಿವಿಧ ದಾಖಲೆಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ಹಂಗರ್ ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ ಪಾಲುದಾರ ಅಡಿಗೆಮನೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. 

ಇವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನೈರ್ಮಲ್ಯೀಕರಣ ಅಡುಗೆ ತಾಪಮಾನ, ಆವರಣದ ಪರಿಶೀಲನಾಪಟ್ಟಿಗಳು, ಸಾರಿಗೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಹಲವಾರು ದಾಖಲೆಗಳು ಸೇರಿವೆ. ಆಹಾರವು ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ಕೆಫೆಟೇರಿಯಾವನ್ನು ತಲುಪಿದ ನಂತರ, ಆಹಾರ ಸೇವೆ ಮತ್ತು ಆದೇಶ, ಕೌಂಟರ್ ನೈರ್ಮಲ್ಯ, ಕೆಫೆ ನೈರ್ಮಲ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಕೆಫೆ ಮೇಲ್ವಿಚಾರಣೆಯಂತಹ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಟ್ಟುನಿಟ್ಟಾದ ಮಾನದಂಡಗಳತ್ತ ಗಮನ ಹರಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

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ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು: ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಆಧಾರಿತ ಕಾರು ಉತ್ಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಂಚೂಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಎಂಜಿ ಮೋಟಾರ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ತಡೆಗೆ ಕಾರುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ  ‘ಶೀಲ್ಡ್+’ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾವನ್ನು ಅಳವಡಿಸಿದೆ. ಗ್ರಾಹಕರು ತಮ್ಮ ಎಂಜಿ ಮೋಟಾರ್ ಕಾರನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮ ಧ್ವನಿಯ ಮೂಲಕವೇ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಿಸಬಹುದು. ಇದರಿಂದ ಅನಗತ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಕಾರನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟುವುದನ್ನು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ. 

ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲದೆ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ಮನೆಯ ಬಾಗಿಲಿಗೆ ಕೆಲವು ಸೇವೆಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ಪರಿಚಯಿಸಿದೆ. ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯು ನುರಿತ ಟೆಕ್ನಿಷಿಯನ್ ಗಳು ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ಮನೆಯ ಬಾಗಿಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದು ಕಾರಿಗೆ ಸ್ಯಾನಿಟೈಜೆಷನ್, ಡಿಸ್‌ಇನ್ಫೆಕ್ಷನ್ ಮತ್ತು ಫ್ಯೂಮಿಗೇಷನ್ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. 

ವಿವಿಧ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನದ ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆಗೆ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರು ಎಂಜಿ ಮೋಟಾರ್ ಶೋ ರೂಮ್ ಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ ಸ್ಕಾö್ಯನ್ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ವಿವಿಧ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನದ ಮಾಹಿತಿಯು ಧ್ವನಿಯ ಮೂಲಕ ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು. 

ಕಾರಿನ ಒಳಗಿರುವ ಮನೋರಂಜನೆ ನೀಡುವ ಸಿಸ್ಟಮ್ ಅನ್ನು ಅಪ್ ಡೇಟ್ ಮಾಡಲು ಗ್ರಾಹಕರು ಶೋ ರೂಂಗೆ ಹೋಗುವ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಓವರ್ ದಿ ಏರ್ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಮೂಲಕ ಕೂತಲ್ಲೇ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು.

“ಉತ್ತಮ ಗ್ರಾಹಕ ಅನುಭವಗಳನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸಲು ನಾವು ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ನಾವೀನ್ಯತೆ ಮತ್ತು ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನವನ್ನು ನೋಡುತ್ತೇವೆ. ಹೊಸ ಯುಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್ ಮತ್ತು ಸಂಪರ್ಕ-ಕಡಿಮೆ ಅನುಭವಗಳು ಇನ್ನೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ನಿರ್ಣಾಯಕ ಪಾತ್ರವನ್ನು ವಹಿಸುತ್ತವೆ. ಶೀಲ್ಡ್+ ಹೊಸ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಅನುಕೂಲಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಗುರಿಯನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ” ಎಂಜಿ ಮೋಟಾರ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾದ ಮುಖ್ಯ ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ ಗೌರವ್ ಗುಪ್ತಾ ಹೇಳಿದರು. 

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• Efforts underway to provide 3.7 million meals and 12,300 hygiene kits in Delhi, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Pune and Madurai

Bengaluru, 21^st May 2020: SEEDS, a leading humanitarian organization, has partnered with Honeywell India to distribute food and hygiene kits across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurgaon, Madurai, and Pune. The ongoing drive seeks to provide more than 3.7 million meals to families that have been rendered helpless by the COVID-19 crisis. Additionally, a month’s supply hygiene kits are being distributed to more than 12,300 families.

Dr. Manu Gupta, Co-Founder, SEEDS, said, “Through our continuous efforts to reach out to the bottommost 1% vulnerable communities, SEEDS is committed to providing dry ration, family hygiene and PPE kits, and financial support to those who are most in need to fight against the COVID-19 crisis. It saddens us to see people struggling for sustenance, and we are determined to help them to the best of our capabilities. For us, saving lives is most important.”

Flagging off relief efforts in the national capital, Shri Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, said, “It is commendable that SEEDS and Honeywell, who have a longstanding engagement with the communities of East Delhi, have come forward during the current crisis with food and hygiene kits. This shows how committed and invested they are with the local communities.”

Each food kit comprises rice, wheat flour, sugar, pulses, cooking oil, and salt that should be sufficient to feed a nuclear family for at least a month. Hygiene kits include bathing and washing soaps, detergents, disinfectants, and sanitary and bath towels.

Shri Amit Khatri, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Gurugram, said, “SEEDS and Honeywell have put together a comprehensive set of relief materials that includes food supplies and good quality hygiene kits. We are happy to partner with them to distribute these materials to around 2,000 needy families around industrial areas in Gurugram. These organizations have also come forward to supply schools and hospitals with disinfectants, which is critical to contain the spread of COVID-19.”

While mass migration of workers remains a huge worry for the country, distribution of food kits in industrial areas helps sustain displaced workers, thereby encouraging them to stay put.

Smt. Mrs. Manda Sakore, Sarpanch, Fulgaon Village, Pune, said, “With the nationwide lockdown there are many displaced workers who need help. Many companies with operations in Fulgaon are doing their bit to aid these people. We are supporting Honeywell and their NGO partner, SEEDS, in their efforts to reach out to these people with food and hygiene kits.”

The multi-city outreach effort has also been acknowledged by the government. In Madurai, Shri S. Venkatesan, Member of Parliament from the city, lent a helping hand.

He said, “I am happy to be a part of distribution drive organized by Honeywell to provide food and hygiene kits to those most in need, well-coordinated by SEEDS. While we distributed these items in Indira Colony and Karatipatty, we hope to cover more areas of the city in the coming days.”

Dr. Akshay Bellare, President, Honeywell India, said, “As a responsible corporate citizen, Honeywell has been contributing to COVID-19 relief efforts in country. We have donated Honeywell air purifiers to the government, and our 180 safe water stations continue to provide water to communities while ensuring social distancing. Through our partnership with SEEDS we hope to reach out to the most vulnerable with food and hygiene kits that are now essential for their survival.”

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and countrywide lockdown, SEEDS’ local response teams have been deployed to carry out relief assistance to the most vulnerable and invisible communities across India. Team members are addressing the local and contextual needs of adversely affected communities in collaboration with local authorities.

A robust triangulation, distribution, and monitoring mechanism has been established to reach out to those in distress. Financial and essential services are being provided to support daily wage earners, and hygiene kits and dry rations are being distributed to marginalized families, daily wage earners, old age homes, and orphanages.

To strengthen the fight against COVID-19, SEEDS is also supporting public health systems by providing PPE kits, organizing safety training programs, and arranging temporary isolation centres.

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NumaHands is a multiuse device dedicated to minimise transmission by contact-based exposure to communicable diseases. It provides a contact-free medium to perform routine tasks.

Why NumaHands?

The pandemic COVID-19 has forced India and the world as a whole to combat incomparable humanitarian and healthcare crisis.

Simple activities such as grocery shopping, using the ATM, taking the elevator or even using workplace restroom, pose a threat of being exposed to surfaces that might have – been contaminated with infectious droplets. NumaHands provides individuals a contact- free medium to perform the afore mentioned activities in turn enhancing the standard of living.

Salient features of NumaHands

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